Sister Light, Sister Dark Quotes

“What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?”
― Jane Yolen, Sister Light, Sister Dark

“Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love... But if you push her too much, you will push her away. A child is not yours to own but to raise. She may not be what you will have her to be, but she will be what she has to be. Remember what they say, that 'Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.”
― Jane Yolen, Sister Light, Sister Dark

“The priestess gave the line of girls a smile, but there was no warmth in that smile, only a formal lifting of the lips.”
― Jane Yolen, Sister Light, Sister Dark