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1 " 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. "
― , A Journey of the Heart (When Women Were Warriors, #2)
2 " For the first time I understood something my grandmother told me years before, that it's not our deeds that hurt us, but what they make us believe about ourselves. "
3 " Hatred can be just as blind as love "
4 " Losing her was the worst of it, but loving her hurt almost as much sometimes. "
5 " Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one. "
6 " Your task will be to let your heart grow large enough not to break. "
7 " 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 "
8 " 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? "
9 " I only wanted her to hold still for a little while, and not to mind that I loved her. "
10 " 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. "
11 " I wondered how it was possible to be so happy and so miserable all at once. "
12 " I was certain we would have found one another though worlds had separated us "
13 " Beloved,” I said, “my heart is full to bursting with things it doesn’t understand. If they stay there, locked away, they’ll die there, or they’ll break my heart to pieces trying to get out. All I want is for you to want those things. Touch the door. One touch from you and it will spring open. "
14 " The more I thought about it, the more I believed that it was impossible not to hope, and few things could be more painful than to hope for love only to be constantly disappointed. "
15 " It would be a long time before I understood that fear is only the dark face of love. "
16 " I wanted her to give me the gift of her past, so that I would no longer be shut out from any part of her life. "
17 " We trusted death to spare us the infirmities of age or the pains of an illness or an injury that is past healing. We trusted death to comfort us with forgetfulness of life's sorrows. We trusted that death was a passageway from life to life, and that the spirit, freed of the body it had outworn, would again clothe itself in flesh and time. "
18 " Why is it that wisdom comes to us too late to do us any good? "
19 " Merin may appear hard on the outside, but hard things are brittle, and when they break, they shatter. "