“Love transcended loss long enough for them to find that the depth of feeling is best known in silence, because in the presence of such love words are never quite enough.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“She opened her heart and her home to her Purpose, and waited for it to come in.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“Their hands never touched, not even in an accidental brushing, and that was a good thing, for real intimacy has a dawn.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“The day was so wonderful that Bonaventure thought it would taste like cherry pie if he took a bite of it.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“The mirror done broke and your life looking back at you from them sharp glass pieces.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“She did not believe in random. God does not deal in random.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“The fire sings to the marshmallow, and the song turns the marshmallow brown because that's what marshmallows do when they're happy.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“The mind can take in many things, but it cannot take in God.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“Before long the formed into a circle, and neither of them could imagine being a straight line again, caught in the loneliness of blunt severed ends.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“Please God, please God, can you please tell me why? I ask this of you, yet in my heart, I know.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“From inside Dancy's warm, safe womb Bonaventure heard two voices singing, and his little heart beat out a raining tattoo as if to keep in time with the song. He had no suspicion that anything had changed, because for him they had not; he'd always known these two voices, one soft, one deep and had always found them soothing.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“His listening intensified day by day until he could hear the adagio movement of a nucleus inside an electron aria that floated through the operatic galaxy inside a single atom. And then he began to hear extra... In the case of the marmalade spoon, the whir of the bluebottle fly was more than a buzzing, it also spoke of the splendor of courage. That was the extra part.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“The could never have explained Bonaventure anyway because there is no scientific word for miraculous.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“One time Bonaventure heard the graphite of a pencil rasp across a piece of paper and leave a slight and quivered mark behind. He listened so hard he heard the graphite's history, when it was still a part of metamorphic rock that didn't know it would one day almost capture what was almost a thought from the mind of an insane man.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“And you gots a Purpose too. Your Purpose gonna show itself when the time be right.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“Bonaventure Arrow could travel the world through the abundant good graces of his silence.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“-I'm glad you're my dad. I love your sound. William took that to mean 'I love you' for sound was all he was to Bonaventure. 'I love you too,' he said.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken words exist in the mind first and then go to the voice and sit temporarily inside ears, and if words are conveyed through sign language, they exist in the motion of hands.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“Bonaventure always liked pictures because even though they had no mouths they managed to speak.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“Bonaventure heard the determination behind the Wanderer's library deed. It sounded like a thousand marching boots.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“Lord knows, nobody understand where love come from if not from inside a mystery.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“Bonaventure could hear The Wanderer's regret. It made the sound of burned skin that cannot scab over because it is too far gone.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“The music interrupted mockingbirds and cardinals and half-hour church bells. It was at times orchestral and at times a cappella, a mighty love song made of lullaby, angel chant, opera, and hymn. There were the tap water and scissor sounds of wished-for beauty; the gumball rattle of giant kindness; the crinkly-page sounds meant for Creathie LaRue; the joyful, last-sip gurgle from Bixie’s Luncheonette; the moist-earth sounds of healing; the echo of wind in trees; the pinging of broken sunlight; and the courageous buzzing of a bluebottle fly all mixed together in a wonderful, powerful, magical gris-gris.”
― quote from The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow
“It’s like watching a caged animal try to escape. I can tell she wants to, she wants to let me in so bad, but she really doesn’t know how.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Cage
“Nothing against the law ever cease to exist.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.”
― Anita Shreve, quote from The Weight of Water
“Why, conquering
May prove as lordly and complete a thing
In lifting upward, as in crushing low!
And as a vanquished soldier yields his sword
To one who lifts him from the bloody earth,
Even so, Belovëd, I at last record,
Here ends my strife. If thou invite me forth,
I rise above abasement at the word.
Make thy love larger to enlarge my worth!”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, quote from Sonnets from the Portuguese
“It's not what you project... it's what you don't show.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Because You're Mine
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