Wild Swan Quotes

“You did not seduce me. I came to you. If you cannot accept my strengths as well as my weaknesses, if you cannot take from me as well as give to me, you cannot love me.”
― Celeste De Blasis, Wild Swan

“It is so difficult to be honest when someone has died; it's as if truth stops at the grave even when the lies continue to hurt the living.”
― Celeste De Blasis, Wild Swan

“The air was cool and shadowed in the great oak. Alex took a deep breath, trying to taste its greenness. It did have a taste, an elusive sweetness. Eyes half-closed, legs dangling, she felt the solid trunk against her back, the pull of the earth on her legs. Despite her presence, birds flew in and out of the tree, and her mind went with them, seeking the course of their secret journeys. She was on the edge of knowing how it felt to be one of them when the thud of a horse's hooves brought her back to earth.”
― Celeste De Blasis, Wild Swan

“These are your children, and like it or not, they are your responsibility. I presume you got these infants on my sister like a man, and if you want to walk and piss like a man, you can damn well learn to take care of your family like a man, too!”
― Celeste De Blasis, Wild Swan