Catherine M. Wilson · 320 pages
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“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
Catherine M. Wilson
Born place: in New York, The United States
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“It’s like … everything that happened to you, all those terrible things that I hope someday you’ll tell me about, they’re part of who you are now. They make up the scars that are on your heart. If you rip them off, try to make them disappear, you’ll just cause more damage in the end. Scars are your body’s way of healing, making that damaged part stronger than it ever was before the pain.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“What right have we to believe Nature under any obligation to do her work by means of complete minds only? She may find an incomplete mind a more suitable instrument for a particular purpose.”
― William James, quote from The Varieties of Religious Experience
“I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place. ”
― Michael Ondaatje, quote from Divisadero
“La muerte violenta no tolera ninguna intimidad. Saquea la propia dignidad tan rotundamente como ha arrebatado la vida. El cuerpo es manejado, escudriñado y fotografiado, y en cada paso del proceso se le aplica una nueva serie de dígitos. La víctima se convierte en parte de las pruebas, un objeto expuesto que se exhibe a policías, patólogos, especialistas forenses, abogados y, llegado el caso, jurados. Numeradlo; fotografiadlo; tomad muestras; ponedle una etiqueta en el pie. Aunque partícipe activa, no me resigno a aceptar lo impersonal del sistema. Es como un saqueo al nivel más personal. Por lo menos yo daría un nombre a esta víctima. La muerte en el anonimato no se sumaría a la lista de violaciones que él o ella deben sufrir.”
― Kathy Reichs, quote from Déjà Dead
“What’s a meet-cute?” Peter’s lying on his side now, his head propped up on his elbow. He looks so adorable I could pinch his cheeks, but I refrain from saying so. His head is big enough as it is. “A meet-cute is when the hero and heroine meet for the very first time, and it’s always in a charming way. It’s how you know they’re going to end up together. The cuter the better.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Always and Forever, Lara Jean
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