The Wild Rose Quotes

“Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose

“Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose

“She'd long ago learned that only those with something to lose were afraid of dying.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose

“For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose

“Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose

“No sunrises that stop you dead with their unspeakable beuaty, either, he thought. No whales breaching only yards away from the ship, showering your awestruck self with a cold ocean rain. No songs and whiskey belowdecks at night while the wind plucks at the ship's rigging and the ice beats against her hull.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose

“Only education can empty the workhouses and prisons, the slums and rookeries.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose

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― Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose

“Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose

“Sadness enfolded her like a long black cape.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose

“From the moment he held her, and looked into her eyes, he was a changed man. He'd held that tiny girl in his arms that moment; he would hold her in his heart forever.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, The Wild Rose