“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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“What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.”
― Michael Ondaatje, quote from The English Patient
“For a moment, I pretended. Not that we weren't two different species, because I didn't see him that way, but that we actually liked each other.
And then he shifted and rolled. I was on my back, and he was still on the move. His face burrowed into the space between my neck and shoulder, nuzzling. Sweet baby Jesus...Warm breath danced over my skin, sending shivers down my body. His arm was heavy against my stomach, his leg between mine, pushing up and up. Scorched air fled my lungs.
Daemon murmured in a language I couldn't understand. Whatever it was, it sounded beautiful and soft. Magical. Unearthly.
I could've woken him up but for some reason I didn't. The thrill of him touching me was far stronger than anything else.
His hand was on the edge of the borrowed shirt, his long fingers on the strip of exposed flesh between the hem on the shirt and the band of the worn pajama bottoms. And his hand inched up under the shirt, across my stomach, where it dipped slightly. My pulse went into cardiac territory. The tips of his fingers brushed my ribs. His body moved, his knee pressed against me.
I gasped.
Daemon stilled. No one moved. The clock on the wall ticked.
And I cringed.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Obsidian
“Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each ‘I’, every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow the world.”
― Salman Rushdie, quote from Midnight's Children
“Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult”
― Art Spiegelman, quote from The Complete Maus
“Every name is real. That's the nature of names.”
― Jerry Spinelli, quote from Stargirl
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