Elizabeth Cunningham Quotes & Sayings

Being born in a place is only one way to belong, nor do you have to die there....

I knew at once that Magdala was home because I felt sighted there again, second sighted. It was not only the spring. In time everything spoke.

When birds rose into the air, I could read the pattern of their wings, and the path the wind made on the water carried messages. The very ground said make a path here, plant herbs there. These vine are not dead. Tend them and they'll bear fruit again.

Ancient trees offered shelter and wisdom as well as olives. And there were certain rocks that could absorb fatigue or agitation, leaving me refreshed and calm. — Elizabeth Cunningham

How things appear is only the thin, papery outer skin of the onion. Of course, when you cut open the onion, your eyes will sting and water, and then you can't see at all. You're lucky if you don't slice your finger. — Elizabeth Cunningham

And sometimes men fail, I answered silently. Sometimes they don't forgive. Sometimes what you see is only the bright surface of something cold and deep. — Elizabeth Cunningham

And what is love but a four-letter word for trouble? — Elizabeth Cunningham

Summer was letting out one long, last, sweet breath before winter began to blast. — Elizabeth Cunningham

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Ever notice how the more depraved a man is, the more he tries to ruin other people's fun? — Elizabeth Cunningham

I've outgrown my childhood name, and I haven't found a new one yet."
"Ah," she cried. "Then it will be my pleasure to name you for myself. I can tell you are a colleen after my own heart, more like to me than my own daughter Findbhair. So I bestow on you the brave name of Maeve until such a time as another name shall claim you. — Elizabeth Cunningham

So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless — Elizabeth Cunningham

Being lost is the way, how else can you be found? — Elizabeth Cunningham

... these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity — Elizabeth Cunningham

This is a passion story: my passion, his, ours - yours. — Elizabeth Cunningham

I was grateful for the darkness that hid our faces at least, but nothing can hide the voice. It is always naked. — Elizabeth Cunningham

In the end I just let the dreams come and go, let whatever bliss or pain they brought roll through me.

...Time wears away hope like water wears away rock. As for faith, I remained in a standoff with Isis. But love, as Paul of Tarsus would say, is greater than hope and faith. It can survive without either. Love was all I had, and it would not go away. It would not die even though sometimes I wished it would. — Elizabeth Cunningham

In your time, politicians win points in the polls for proposing to punish unmarried teenaged mothers like me, not to mention our children. — Elizabeth Cunningham