Ely Parker Quotes & Sayings

After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life. — Mary Balogh

I have had a delightfully lonely time of it - plenty of leisure to think and think about things. — Henrik Ibsen

You are not the first man to miss a woman's more subtle communication ... They think they are waving when we see only the calm sea, and pretty soon everybody drowns. — Helen Simonson

liked the simple language and that nothing much happened. It wasn't all fancy but almost like an episode, like a summer holiday story, and — Laurence Fearnley

The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre. — H.P. Lovecraft

Sin is guerrilla warfare that is deadly. Just when you think you are in control, it seeks to devour you. — Edward T. Welch

[In Christianity] humans are invited to co-create in mutual kenosis with this God who weaves our sins, mistakes, and follies into a pattern, and thus offers us salvation contingent on our willingness to have it. — Maggie Ross