Penelope Wilcock QUOTES

1 " It was one of those brief spells of complete happiness that come once in a rare while, an unlooked for gift of God, when the forces of darkness, of sorrow and temptation seem miraculously held back, a breathing space in the battle. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Hawk and the Dove (The Hawk and the Dove #1)

2 " Sometimes thoughts merely pass through a man's head without mishap, but sometimes they fall out of his mouth on the way through. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Hardest Thing to Do (The Hawk and the Dove #4)

3 " As he rested in the great hollow shell of tranquility and light, listening to its silence, it dawned upon him that ‘empty’ was the wrong word for this place. It was as full as could be: full of silence, full of light, full of peace. There "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy (The Hawk and the Dove #1-3)

4 " The great cause of fiction is to weave a bag to carry truth. "

― Penelope Wilcock

5 " Simplify; small is beautiful; cherish the living earth; bless the community where you live; think globally, act locally; watch your boundaries; choose what is handmade with love; don’t eat food you don’t like; don’t be deprived of firelight; don’t take anything seriously; and don’t let people get you down.” Ember "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Clear Light of Day: A Novel

6 " And who am I, that I should be asking you of all people for an easy life? As you think best then Lord, but only, give me patience when my own runs out... "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy (The Hawk and the Dove #1-3)

7 " I simply wanted to remind you that a man without sleep, food and leisure is indistinguishable from a man without charity, patience or a sense of humour. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Long Fall (The Hawk and the Dove #3)

8 " I began to wonder, as spring wore on to summer in that my fifteenth year, if I would ever meet anyone who could look me in the eye, who could say sorry without making a joke of it, who could cry without embarrassment, have a row and still stay friends. As for mentioning the word 'love', well... it provoked sniggers, not much else. The hunger of it all ached inside me. Maybe Mother knew. Maybe she could guess what I never told her, could not even tell myself; that I was desperate for something more than smiles and jokes and surfaces; that I was beginning to wonder if it was possible to stretch out your hand in the darkness and find it grasped by another hand, not evaded, rejected, or ignored. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Hawk and the Dove (The Hawk and the Dove #1)

9 " Did God mind that dreadful singing, he who made the nightingale and the lark? Probably not. Probably it was the soul of Mrs Crabtree he was listening to, the worshipping song of her heart, and that rang true as a bell. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy (The Hawk and the Dove #1-3)

10 " Down the avenue of trees I can see a spot of sunlight. I’m trying so hard to get there. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Clear Light of Day: A Novel

11 " pleasant "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy (The Hawk and the Dove #1-3)

12 " I mean loving the moon in the sky but leaving it there. Because even suppose you managed to bring it down, that would make the earth darker and not brighter, however good an idea it might have seemed when you first entertained it. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Beautiful Thread (The Hawk and the Dove #8)

13 " the trouble was he had nothing to say, but he loved saying it. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Hawk and the Dove (The Hawk and the Dove #1)

14 " There is no healing without hope. Despair is life’s direst enemy. Despair is living death. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Long Fall (The Hawk and the Dove #3)

15 " God’s justice is subordinate to his love, for his justice is a property of his character, but his love is his essential self. For do not the Scriptures say, “God is love,” but never, “God is justice”? "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Wounds of God (The Hawk and the Dove #2)

16 " Silence is full of speech. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Long Fall (The Hawk and the Dove #3)

17 " If she put them to bed and left them, there would be pandemonium. Cecily would not stay in bed at all and romped gaily about the room, and Beth and Mary would begin to argue, starting with a simple remark like ‘Beth, I can’t get to sleep with you sniffing,’ and finishing with a general commotion of crying and quarrelling. So Mother resigned herself to stay with them as they fell asleep, and she sat, with the littlest one snuggled on her lap, in the room dimly glowing with candle-light, softly astir with the breathing and sighing and turning over of children settling for the night. "

― Penelope Wilcock , The Hawk and the Dove (The Hawk and the Dove #1)