A Daughter of Fair Verona Quotes

“There are no complexities of womanhood. Every woman is complex in herself, as is each man.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“I remember what happened twenty years ago, Romeo. I was in that tomb, remember? I thought you were dead and stabbed myself for love. I have the scar to prove it!”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“I comprehended the noose with which they’d hung themselves. They had to sell their wares to survive, and when they did, they were no longer free, for a man could accuse them—and they’d burn.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“From their lips words spring like butterflies, ascend toward the cosmos, and drop tiny turds on your shoulders?”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“Then, because he’s a guy, and unhappy, crying women make him uncomfortable, he lifted his leg and farted.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“Think of yourself as a blade that has been fired, pounded, folded, shaped, and slowly cooled. You have strength. You have an edge. It’s not the weapon you hold in your hand that matters. You are the weapon.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“Woe, for ruin is now my middle name.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“This was taste and sensation, freedom and surprise.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“The place between childhood and womanhood is a wilderness of briars and monsters we all must cross.” When we cross as girls, we’re slashed by thorns and whipped by awkwardness, and on the other side, we’re one with womanhood, but we’re never as we were before. We are, in many ways, strangers to ourselves.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“I’d grown up with the sounds of construction while I worshipped; I found it comforting to know so many men and women had lived and died creating this monument to God, a monument they would never live to see finished.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“Wisdom comes from experience and experience comes from unwise decisions, so—when you’re wise in one area, you’ll be tested in another.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“He wanted me to carry his—” “Baby?” “No! Papà, stop! Sweet Virgin forbid. His dagger.” “His dagger?” Obviously, I’d done nothing to assuage Papà’s suspicions. “His blade. His knife. Like this!” I pushed up my sleeve and showed Papà the hilt and scabbard.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“Dear reader . . . as you know, no matter how mature you are, it never gets easier to have your mother yell at you. The barrage of words create an ongoing crisis of guilt, denial, desperate attempts at appeasement, and the pure, simple knowledge that she’s only yelling because she loves you and she’s off the edge of the cliff because she fears for your life and well-being. As a response, irritation or wrath is out. You have to go with appeasement and hope that works.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“Thinks he’s sooo smart.” Deliberately I echoed Katherina’s words. Isabella smiled shyly. “Yes. Do we always have to let them think they know more than us?” Katherina and I heaved identical sighs. “I’m afraid so,” I said.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“I watched and thought about who my mother was and how much she meant to me.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona