Patricia Storace Quotes

#1. In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In that crushed voice, there is a strain of truth, as a crushed grape yields a drop of wine. - Author: Patricia Storace

#2. What you do and what you are gradually become the same thing, and are identical when you die. And what you have done to another person becomes a part of your substance as surely as a fruit you have eaten. - Author: Patricia Storace

#3. There is more to see than we have been permitted; there are heavens unseen behind the heavens of our perception. - Author: Patricia Storace

#4. One sees in God only what one worships. - Author: Patricia Storace

#5. All souls burn, some give light. - Author: Patricia Storace

#6. A dinner made by a great cook is a vision of the world to come. - Author: Patricia Storace

#7. Hatred can either strike us dead, like lightning, or illuminate us. It shocks us into seeing what is hidden in the landscape. Hatred can be confined to reason, but kept from the heart. - Author: Patricia Storace

#8. There are no separate lives; each life and individual character exists in relation to every other life: dead, living, yet to live. - Author: Patricia Storace

#9. Truth comes to us in resemblance, in shade. In moonlight. In grasping what exists through what we cannot make exist. - Author: Patricia Storace

#10. Women, it is said, are inferior, amoral, animal and satanic. In which case, being born is either insulting, or meaningless. - Author: Patricia Storace

#11. Believe only when you grasp the consequences of your belief. - Author: Patricia Storace

#12. Every beauty
whether of sight, sound, or taste
has a dimension of the metaphysical. Beauty ... moves us so powerfully by making us present at the creation of a world, bringing us into existence. - Author: Patricia Storace

#13. Men hunt by pretending to be the brothers of the prey they seek, and women hunt by impersonating the mothers of their prey. - Author: Patricia Storace

#14. The taste of water, the essential, the pure, the necessary, when you are thirsty, first drunk ardently, and then slowly, is the taste of truth itself. - Author: Patricia Storace

#15. They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence. - Author: Patricia Storace