Top 32 Catherine M. Wilson Quotes
#2. This was how she saw the world. It could take from her in a moment everything she loved. It could deny her anything she wanted. The world had granted me almost my every wish, and none more precious to me than this one. The world had granted her only this.
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#3. If my love for Maara depended on her love for me, it was not love, but a bargain.
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#5. Aamah would sometimes remind them that the story of an old disputte should be retold only when no aftertaste of bitterness remains upon the tongue.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Food is the distance you can travel in a day, and the cold you can withstand at night.
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#8. When someone insults me, it makes me angry." "If that's true, then your feelings will always be at the mercy of others.
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#9. Because you didn't know you had a choice." "What choice?" "To be angry or not." It was the silliest thing I'd ever heard. "That's not a choice." "Yes," she said. "It is.
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#10. I only wanted her to hold still for a little while, and not to mind that I loved her.
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#11. A woman with a warrior's heart shouldn't fear the truth," she said. "No weapon in the world is stronger than the truth.
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#12. Sometimes even now I entertain the hope that Love lives in the world independently of us, but when I am most courageous, I believe that love was born within the human heart, and that the survival of love in the world, as well as its ultimate triumph, is entirely our responsibility.
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#13. I wondered how it was possible to be so happy and so miserable all at once.
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#14. Discipline is simply self-control. If a warrior can't control her feelings, she can't control her actions, and if she can't control her actions, she may blunder into a serious mistake.
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#15. 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
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#16. 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.
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#17. Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.
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#18. so far remained unbroken. Now my turn had come. In early springtime, when I was just sixteen, my mother took me to the house where she had won her shield so many years before. The Lady Abicel, long dead, had left her house and lands, along with her
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#19. So it is the custom that a free woman leave her mother's house to bind herself and those of her blood to a neighboring clan, either by the sword or by the cradle.
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#20. It would be better for you if you were not my friend."
"It's too late for that," I told her.
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#22. I didn't know what being young had to do with it. It seemed to me that older people could do foolish things just as easily as young ones. I had certainly seen older people do some very foolish things.
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#23. I'm not sure I understand you," she said. "Are you telling me you saved my life because you were angry with me?" The idea struck me funny. "Yes," I said, trying not to smile. "Furious." "Furious?" "Enraged," I said. "Oh dear." And then she smiled.
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#24. It is true that a little nudge from you has moved the world, but when that happens, the world was already inclined to move.
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#25. stood side by side. My mother too had served the Lady. Too young to bear arms in the last war, from within the palisade where she trained to take
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#26. Will your woman's heart endanger us?" he asked me. "Tell me now."
"What does my woman's heart have to do with anything?
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#27. Losing her was the worst of it, but loving her hurt almost as much sometimes.
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#28. I felt like a bird, caged all its life, set free by an open window and cowering upon the windowsill.
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#30. Were there once only women warriors, Mother?" "Don't know." "Oh." I started to get up. "Makes sense," she said. "Why?" "Who else should take a life? No man ever brought a child out of his body.
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#31. What is it that we search for? Every child knows the answer. We search for love. Love is our shelter. Love is our purpose. Love is why we are here.
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#32. A woman counsels caution, while a man's heart burns to see justice done.
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