Threads Quotes

“We are all on the same road, some ahead of us and some behind. We do not always recognize ourselves as being among those who are struggling farther back, and misunderstand, scorn, and even persecute the ones who move ahead of us. History is littered with such as these: eccentrics, geniuses, idealists among those most noticeable. These change the world by force, though the change most often does not take place during their own time, they are so far ahead of it and therefore so rarely understood.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads

“The most seductive sin, I suppose, is passing judgment on others, and the next must be acting out of one's anger when one has the power to hurt the ones who wound us.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads

“Betrayal of trust is, by far, the very cruelest sin of all.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“Vanity often roots itself in insecurity”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“What we should see is that there is none among us with nothing to give, and that giving is our purpose.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads

“Children always grow faster than their parents’ image of them.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“One cannot successfully face an enemy while one is questioning one’s own worth, and presuming the enemy is worth more.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“I now know that my pain is not more sacred, my suffering is not more noble, and the injustice I endure is not more ill-deserved than someone else’s.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“Truth, after all, does not ask for our permission or
require our concurrence. It simply is. With or without us.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“Men who speak loudly about their “conquests” most assuredly have little to claim.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“I was deeply wounded and knew not how to be wounded without dramatically reacting to the pain, or hiding it.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“I had more emotion than I had room for. I had no place to put the pain.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“Had I no limbs to walk to him, I would crawl.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“He is my soul mate. There are such things, and he is mine. There are bonds stronger than death or marriage vows, and we are bound in such a way.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“What you hear of me is more a reflection of the speaker than the woman spoken of, especially with regard to my motives. No one can speak for another’s heart. Certainly no one ever spoke with accuracy for mine!”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“When we hate each other, we hate with strong passion. It comes, I see, and it goes. I see also that, even in the worst of these situations, we
have still chosen to be together, and always manage to find a way to bring it about. We have a stronger need to be together, even fighting and hating, than we have to be at peace, apart.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“Ill-fortune carries with it a stench and leaves a wide berth around its victims,”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“Sympathy toward me would demand self examination and the questioning of their values, with the discomfort that brings. Their
hearts were not large enough to withstand that kind of scrutiny.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“Calm yourself. Calm yourself . . . ”
In time I do, and I move forward.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“Always, I sensed the difference between others and myself in the power of my emotions, and felt ashamed that I was less calm than Mary, and less able than George to view matters with level-headedness. It was so difficult for me. I was too easily carried away and wished to hide this, for expression of feelings always drew frowns or gasps, and was generally viewed as something base and common, as well as inappropriate. I prayed often that God might make me good.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“Calm yourself. Calm yourself . . . ” In time I do, and I move forward.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“The book doesn't preach; it just offers up another way of looking at life.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn

“Each society–each group within each society–chooses something with which to assign inferiority. In China it is the time of birth and the size of feet. In Europe it is the Jews; in England, the Irish. Among the powerful, it is the powerless; among the rich, it is the poor; among the men, it is the women. In this “new” country, that will also be true. In reverse, there is often a vehement hatred by an oppressed group toward the ones it sees as representatives of oppression. The oppressed view their own feelings of contempt as nobler than the contempt they receive, and more justified. They view their own hatred as right and pure. They nurture it, and bequeath it to their children, and sometimes see to it that it is carried on for generations.”
― Nell Gavin, Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn