The Water Women Quotes

“Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o’er fraught heart”
― Bonnie Blaylock, The Water Women: A Novel

“There was a time for mourning and a time for dancing”
― Bonnie Blaylock, The Water Women: A Novel

“Arrested hope is a feeble-winged bird hopping about on earth instead of tasting the wind and clouds as its nature demands.”
― Bonnie Blaylock, The Water Women: A Novel

“Breath was everything”
― Bonnie Blaylock, The Water Women: A Novel

“All of us build a life from the material we’ve been given. The trick is to know which patterns need embellishing and which should be abandoned or removed.”
― Bonnie Blaylock, The Water Women: A Novel

“Think of it this way. I work with the language of numbers; you make a language from fabric and thread. Text, meaning ‘words,’ and textile, meaning ‘fabric,’ come from the same origin, meaning ‘to weave.’ Words create a language; threads create fabric. Both of us are linguists, creating beautiful things with our languages.”
― Bonnie Blaylock, The Water Women: A Novel

“Fine. Strive for improvement, but give yourself some credit for what you’ve already done. It’s stunning. That’s what I see. You’re an inspiration.”
― Bonnie Blaylock, The Water Women: A Novel

“Breath was everything, in the end. It was, according to their faith, the animation given by their Creator, Yahweh: Yah, that first intake of spirit at birth, and the faint weh, when spirit was released at death.”
― Bonnie Blaylock, The Water Women: A Novel