“As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“But she had known, better than anyone else, what demons he had faced, had known how hard he had fought to free himself from them. That he had lost the fight in the end made the struggle no less honorable.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Strange the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moments unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. Cogito, ergo Deus est,'says St. Augustine, I think, therefore God is.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until at last the walls give way and the rose bursts forth, spreading its petals into the light. I love him.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“To marry is to surrender everything—not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Why the woman is better...though she was created second she was made from Adam's side whole Adam was made from common clay. Woman should be preferred to man because Eve was created inside Paradise, but Adam was created outside. As for will, woman should be considered superior to man-for Eve ate of the apple for the love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly afflict even children and babies, who were not guilty of any sin?”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“...for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Would he be happy? Joan hoped so. But somehow he seemed a man fated always to yearn after that which he could not have, to choose for himself the rockiest, most difficult path. She would pray for him, as for all the other sad and troubled souls who must travel roads alone.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“primicerius? He was young, it was”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
“Eran extraños los caminos del corazón. Uno podía pasar años habituado a una pérdida, resignado, y después, con un pensamiento casual, el dolor volvía a la superficie, agudo y desnudo como una herida reciente.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, quote from Pope Joan
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“The process of giving is without limits.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Chocolat
“There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.”
― Alan Paton, quote from Cry, the Beloved Country
“I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The 5th Wave
“I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from Snow Crash
“You took your meds today, right?" he whispered.
I nodded.
Then use this jar to save it."
Save . . . ?"
Your urine. If you give them some of today's tomorrow, it'll seem like you're still taking your meds."
You want me to . . . dole it out? Into specimen jars?"
Got a better idea?"
Um, no, but ..." I lifted the jar and stared into it.
Oh, for God's sake. Save your piss. Don't save your piss. It's all the same to me."
Simon peeked around the corner, brows lifted. "I was going to ask what you guys were doing, but hearing that, I think I'll pass.”
― Kelley Armstrong, quote from The Summoning
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