Pray for a Brave Heart Quotes

“Perhaps emotion, when it is tightly disciplined, turns into worry.”
― Helen MacInnes, Pray for a Brave Heart

“Tomorrow, he thought, sounds wonderful: a day for oneself, a day to stretch out on a soft piece of green grass under a birch tree—the kind that had invited him today as he walked toward Falken, with its delicate leaves showing blue sky between them; a book to read, sleep to come softly; no one talking, questioning; no one to worry about, whether friend or enemy. A day to be kept for oneself.”
― Helen MacInnes, Pray for a Brave Heart

“Some day. The most hopeful phrase in man’s language, the most promising in his thoughts, the most unfulfilled.”
― Helen MacInnes, Pray for a Brave Heart

“Some day I’ll come back and enjoy this place, he promised himself. And smiled to himself, knowing only too well that life had a way of never giving you the time to come back.”
― Helen MacInnes, Pray for a Brave Heart

“He stepped out into the sunny street, a man with a piece of information which he couldn’t get rid of, a man who felt useless because his usefulness couldn’t be used.”
― Helen MacInnes, Pray for a Brave Heart

“And Mademoiselle Dupre, finding everything unintelligible, was completely reassured: such good-bys were normal among the unfortunate English-speakers, an uncouth language, it affected their minds; or perhaps, poor people, it was not given to all languages to perform with the precision, the clarity, the grace of a French epigram.”
― Helen MacInnes, Pray for a Brave Heart

“That’s the trouble about regulated ideas: the phrases are never original, the same words keep recurring.”
― Helen MacInnes, Pray for a Brave Heart

“Some men would do better to stay poor,” Francesca said. “ Money only exaggerates their vulgarities.”
― Helen MacInnes, Pray for a Brave Heart