Heather Day Gilbert Quotes & Sayings

Torture is being married to a proud, insensitive man, while an attentive, supportive man lives under the same roof. — Heather Day Gilbert

Sometimes I feel so entangled with the West Virginia seasons, it's like I'm breathing through them. — Heather Day Gilbert

What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided. — Heather Day Gilbert

A married man is a preoccupied man. — Heather Day Gilbert

Something's still wrong
the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared. — Heather Day Gilbert

But there will be no redemption for me. I will become the most unmerciful of murderers. I accept my fate. — Heather Day Gilbert

I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil. — Heather Day Gilbert

Freydis and Ref are in a world of their own, a world of love and pain, wrapped in marriage vows. — Heather Day Gilbert

I hadn't thought of it before, but the Good Doctor is very much like water, fitting in wherever he needs to. Ever-present, but never obtrusive. Calming, comforting, yet inescapable. — Heather Day Gilbert

I couldn't describe the smells of West Virginia, even if I tried. It has something to do with the leaves composting in the woods, the cold trickle of little creeks and waterfalls, the ferns greening up everything. But somewhere deep below, I can smell the rock and the coal this state is built on. — Heather Day Gilbert

Obviously she's the kind of woman who gives people the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to assume bad stuff first; correct it later. — Heather Day Gilbert

The pull of the mountain is like gravity for my soul. — Heather Day Gilbert

Judgment doesn't always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out. — Heather Day Gilbert

Some are born to love, and some to fight. How can I ever succeed at both? — Heather Day Gilbert

An uncertain warrior is no warrior at all. — Heather Day Gilbert

There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe. — Heather Day Gilbert

I am happy to be alone.
Perhaps this is true.
Or perhaps I am the biggest coward of all. — Heather Day Gilbert

If we are to survive, I must start and end my war this same day. — Heather Day Gilbert

When he leaned in to kiss me, the future swirled before me, bright as sunlight on creek water. — Heather Day Gilbert

Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load. — Heather Day Gilbert

My dear husband Thomas has informed me that I can't walk without natural hip action. The more I slow to adjust my walk, the more my hips determine to swing of their own accord. — Heather Day Gilbert

Marriage was like a stale brownie - started crumbling apart the minute we got hitched. — Heather Day Gilbert

I'm not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I'm a weak woman. He thinks wrong. — Heather Day Gilbert