Onora Quotes & Sayings

I love you," he said, and though she knew it was true she kept her eyes closed and said, "Don't say that." She did not want to allow that love could be so fearful and meager and misshapen. He left, and she did not try to stop him. She was through trying to stop him. She had been trying to stop him since the day they met. — Claire Vaye Watkins

He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship. — Rick Warren

Not to have been born, merely musing on that - what freedom, what space! — Emil Cioran

We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so. — Janet Erskine Stuart

It's hard to explain how this works, and I admit that it's fairly implausible or untenable as a way of life, but that seems to be how I go about my days: peaceably in person, fiercely on paper. — Katie Roiphe