Three Daughters Quotes

“Every day, with all my heart, I will miss you. And each time I think of you, you will feel my blessing.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“There were days she lived at such a high pitch of emotion she couldn’t remember any details. Whole sections of her life were blank. Only his face made an impact. Only his voice reached her ears.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“I can’t stop thinking of you. You’re not cynical. You don’t cling. You don’t giggle. You simply wait. Like a beautiful cat that knows it’s a rare species and that eventually everything it wants will come.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“Her face in that subdued light seemed as fragile as the mist that rolled in before dawn and hovered magically before it delivered itself to the thirsty foliage.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“Change comes slowly in most lives, but sometimes there is one decisive moment. One can point and say, “There. My life changed there.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“There is nothing more important on the earth than the earth itself.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“The land - and everything on it - holds and nourishes, heals and comforts, melds one generation to the next.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“mother’s eyes exactly,” Nadeem said with mixed feelings. “This one isn’t going to give you trouble,” said Zareefa. “He looks so peaceful and content.” It was a blessing that Hanna was good-natured, for Miriam was filled with a deep, brooding melancholy over Nabiha’s death. Calamity”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“How can”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“likely to see him again.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“He had read somewhere that we are all—even those who would deny it—blindly adoring of our own lives exactly as they are. He knew this was true for him. If”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“marriage is not cataclysmic. It’s simply a legality. Do you think people feel one whit more in love because of marriage? Quite the opposite. It often puts a dampening effect on ardor.” “Then”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“Had Sammy Sahadi not omitted four lines from “Annabel Lee,” crassly curtailing Poe’s lament for his beloved, the scene would have gone unwitnessed.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“was repeating word”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“revivalism and waves of foreigners passed through”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Daughters

“He liked her height. He liked standing next to her and being able to look into her eyes and to kiss her without bending over. He”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“There was a look about her, a new confidence, but also a softness that totally transformed her. Was it the fact that she loved someone else that made her so desirable? She exuded a womanliness that was palpable. He”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“One of the things I miss most is being able to tie my shoes. I always felt so satisfied when I tied my shoes. That set the day for me.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“She had no taste for dealing with the customers, many of whom took the opportunity to display their feelings of superiority. But”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, endures all things. Love never ends .”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“Every day, with all my heart, I will miss you. And each”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“You’re like a thief who’s not in the least sorry he stole but is terribly sorry he’s going to jail.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“morass of pain and uncertainty, there was something”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“There are some moments that are etched on the mind so clearly that no amount of time dulls their effect.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“building was stone covered over”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“blurting it out. She was also incredibly smart.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“The language of marriage was the language of imprisonment. You landed or caught or hooked your man as if he were a fish.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“Perfect love,” he had once said to her, “is what parents feel for a child. It’s love that wants nothing back.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“He had read somewhere that we are all—even those who would deny it—blindly adoring of our own lives exactly as they are. He knew this was true for him.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters

“She had no experience in coping with bad luck. I knew that when I married her. If I’m honest with myself, I can’t expect qualities now in adversity that weren’t there to begin with.”
― Consuelo Saah Baehr, Three Daughters