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...
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...
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...
There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.
It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.
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.
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.
To marry is to surrender everything—not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.
Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.
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.
She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.
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
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.
Some ideas are dangerous.
And the Daughter.
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.