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“Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die--die, sweetly die--into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.”
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“There are those that hate and those that love, it all works out the same.”
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“It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.”
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“Let us learn from the Virgin Mary how to be bolder in obeying the word of God.”
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“Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.”
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“Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.”
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“My mom gave me a good piece of advice. She said never marry a man thinking you can change him, and I think that starts from your first date when you're in the seventh grade onwards. Women are fixers so we have to just not fix. Don't fix.”
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“Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.”
Source : Cecil Frances Alexander (1852). “Hymns for little children”, p.21
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“People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.”
Source : Jennifer Chiaverini (2011). “The Quilter's Legacy: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel”, p.321, Simon and Schuster
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“The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.”
