Eran extraños los caminos del corazón. Uno podía pasar años habituado a una pérdida, resignado, y después, con un pensamiento casual, el dolor volvía a la superficie, agudo y desnudo como una herida r...
But she had known, better than anyone else, what demons he had faced, had known how hard he had fought to free himself from them. That he had lost the fight in the end made the struggle no less honora...
Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then re...
There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.
This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.
It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.
The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until at last the walls give way and the rose bursts forth, spreading its petals into t...
Pope Joan was an excellent read.
Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.
To marry is to surrender everything—not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.
She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.
Some ideas are dangerous.
Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.
Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke.
For Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.
Primicerius? He was young, it was
And the Daughter.
What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.
Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?
She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.