Quotes from A Journey of the Heart

“Your task will be to let your heart grow large enough not to break.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Journey of the Heart

“Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Journey of the Heart

“Losing her was the worst of it, but loving her hurt almost as much sometimes.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Journey of the Heart

“All I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief and some from joy. Some even break from love. But hearts break because they are too small to contain the gifts life gives us. Your task will be to let your heart grow large enough not to break.” Namet”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Journey of the Heart

“We trust death to spare us the infirmities of age or the pain of an illness or an injury that is past healing. We trust death to comfort us with forgetfulness of life's sorrows. We trusted that death was a passageway fro life to life.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Journey of the Heart

“I only wanted her to hold still for a little while, and not to mind that I loved her.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Journey of the Heart

“I knew what she was doing. Each touch was a question. She was asking me what I would give and what I would withhold, what I would reveal, what I would hide. I had told her that I loved her. Perhaps she was unsure of what I meant, and now she was asking me the questions she couldn’t frame in words. How much of myself would I give her? How much was hers?”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Journey of the Heart

“I wondered how it was possible to be so happy and so miserable all at once.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Journey of the Heart

“Why is it that wisdom comes to us too late to do us any good?”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Journey of the Heart

“Again and again I asked for permission. May I? Here? And here? Is this too much? Too little? Can you hear me? This is my heart.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Journey of the Heart

About the author

Popular quotes

“Rebbe of Kotzk said toward the end of his life? ‘When I was young, I wanted to change the world. When I became an adult, I wanted to change my country. As the years passed, I was content just to change my city. Today I say, ‘I hope I can just change myself.”
― Nathan Erez, quote from The Kabbalistic Murder Code

“Not only did I rise above my drooling-hunchback-in-the-dungeon status, but I also made our meeting seem like a chance encounter, one of the most powerful aphrodisiacs known to man. Thanks to chick flicks, the concept of true love being orchestrated by the rough, construction worker hands of fate is an easy sell.”
― Shane Kuhn, quote from The Intern's Handbook

“...We’d be like Cathy and Heathcliff. Harry and Hermione. Liam and Noel.”
...
“Well, I’m not sure they’re the best example anyway,” Sean points out, handing me a coffee. “Nor are the others. None of them exactly ended up together.”
“That doesn’t matter. What matters is what they did together, what they could achieve side by side. We’d be unstoppable if we were together.”
― Sangu Mandanna, quote from The Lost Girl

“I wanted very badly to have an affinity for something that would become transcendent when I held it in my hands. I don’t know that I’ve ever found that thing; sometimes I suspect I have, but then I doubt myself. Perhaps I’m looking for it still. Perhaps that’s what life is about—the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order to explain it, or contain it. Simply in order to feel it. Because in that recognition of the sublime, we see for a moment the entire universe in the palm of our hand.”
― Garth Stein, quote from A Sudden Light

“You must be careful, Harper. You're stubborn, hardheaded, scientific practicalist, and all of this seems like a nightmare to you that you hope will simply evaporate when you wake up. But you don't wake up from this.”
― Kat Richardson, quote from Greywalker

Interesting books

About BookQuoters

BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.

We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.

Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.