Daughter of Time Quotes

“It is not the actions of a man when he is sober and clear-eyed that are his measure, but when he is pressed hard, his back against a wall. At those times, fear and anger will be his undoing, and it is a rare man who can put aside those feelings and do what must be done. Be one of those men.”
― Sarah Woodbury, Daughter of Time

“For as long as there is wind in the mountains, for as long there is salt in the sea, for as long as rain falls on these green hills, I will stand with thee.”
― Sarah Woodbury, Daughter of Time

“Sometimes, finally facing what you most fear turns out to be no more difficult than putting one foot in front of the other.”
― Sarah Woodbury, Daughter of Time

“I’d had a friend who’d joined the National Guard in college and was sent to Kuwait during the Gulf War. His tank was one of the first to cross into Kuwait City. Seven hundred years later, men talked about war in the same way men did here: in public, bravado and beer; in private, hollowness in their voices and vacancy in their eyes when the emotion they held tight inside their chests threatened to overwhelm them.”
― Sarah Woodbury, Daughter of Time