Fleur de Lis Quotes

“With contradict’ry aim I stand,
Rent in twain between two lands.
One is lit with flowers bright,
The other by sublime starlight.
“A searing fire is one way felt.
The sting of ice that does not melt
Upon the other path is found.
To both I am forever bound.
“My mind is called to what I’ve known,
And mem’ries of what once was home.
Yet calls the road that leads to where
I breathe now more familiar air.
“In her is found the now and then,
The song of hope, the sighed amen,
Both fire and ice, both flow’rs and stars,
The future, past, the near and far.
“Where e’er the path that guides her feet,
In what far clime her heart doth beat,
Howe’er oft I depart or bide,
Home is where my love resides.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Fleur de Lis

“When a remarkably intelligent woman offers you a bit of very intelligent advice, you would do well to take it.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Fleur de Lis

“And I refuse to give up hope.”
“Hope of what?”
“Hope for a future that includes you.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Fleur de Lis

“You’re his floor of lee,” Roderick said earnestly. “He wouldn’t want you to be sad.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Fleur de Lis

“My uncle Aldric said that Mr. Henri likes you even more than poems. I think that means he likes you a lot.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Fleur de Lis

“Moments like this, when one was truly cared about and supported, when concern and compassion came as naturally as breathing… that was what she wanted most of all.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Fleur de Lis

“Are you offering to fight my battle for me?"

"With you.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Fleur de Lis

“You ought to be the recipient of unending kindnesses.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Fleur de Lis

“Aldric could sometimes be impatient with people who allowed emotion to get the better of their intellect. But he also had a good and compassionate heart. He didn’t scold Henri for his struggle or his painstakingly slow crawl toward healing from the wounds his father had inflicted.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Fleur de Lis

“We too often wrongly think forgiveness looks like absolution,” Stanley had once said. “But I think forgiveness is becoming the person the one who hurt us would have prevented us from being. Forgiveness is never about the one who inflicted the pain but rather is the gift we give ourselves: permission not to be the proof of their hateful prophecies.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Fleur de Lis

“Those who were different and those who were lonely often found themselves targets of the unkind and unfeeling”
― Sarah M. Eden, Fleur de Lis

“Let me tell you what I see, Henri. I see a gentleman who made a life for himself far from home, far from the comfort he might have known resting upon the privileges of rank and wealth in his homeland. That is not a tale of weakness, my friend. And if you ask me, your father doesn’t see weakness either. I think he sees that you are stronger and braver than he will ever be, and that terrifies him.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Fleur de Lis