Some Wildflower in My Heart Quotes

“an insidious form of pride had crept into my heart and taken up residence: the pride of suffering.
p 297”
― Jamie Langston Turner, Some Wildflower in My Heart

“This is the danger of reading. One never knows what will be stumbled upon, what old embers may leap again to flame.
p 241”
― Jamie Langston Turner, Some Wildflower in My Heart

“I knew that were I ever to emerge from my darkness to seek a more excellent way of living...this must be my first step: to choose to forgive. It was a dangerous and desperate step, but how I yearned for the respite it could afford - if indeed there were any respite to be had.
p 233”
― Jamie Langston Turner, Some Wildflower in My Heart

“my life was only one of countless stories of human pain; that though I had considered myself the prima donna of sufferers, I was simply one of a vast troupe; that darkness indeed descends upon every man and woman, but that moon and stars also shine down upon all.
p 315”
― Jamie Langston Turner, Some Wildflower in My Heart

“When and if I wish to yield my privacy to the scrutiny of others, you will be the first to be invited to the exhibition.”
― Jamie Langston Turner, Some Wildflower In My Heart

“I was fifty years old, then, when I crept forth from my hiding place, my eyes blinking in the strong light.
p 317”
― Jamie Langston Turner, Some Wildflower in My Heart

“Over the years I had often noted with amazement the considerable mutation that took place between an actual event and Thomas's subsequent recollection of it. I am speaking not only of a man's tendency to exaggerate in reporting matters..., but also of the total transformation of simple facts. In the retelling of a story, Thomas often altered it to an astonishing extent, although the original story was itself sufficiently unbelievable. I had never been able to determine whether his modifications were intentional.. or whether he simply extemporized as his memory failed him.
p 229”
― Jamie Langston Turner, Some Wildflower in My Heart

“The quickness with which all positive emotions such as love and trust can be expunged from the heart of a child is astounding.
p 131”
― Jamie Langston Turner, Some Wildflower in My Heart

“read Jane Hamilton’s novel A Map of the World, a remarkably conceived piece of fiction”
― Jamie Langston Turner, Some Wildflower In My Heart

“A scene took shape in my mind of myself weeping over Thomas’s blood-soaked, outstretched form, a ridiculous scene in which I urged, “Git up, Person, git up!” Actually, I could not recall the last time I had shed tears. It was something that I had stopped doing many years ago.”
― Jamie Langston Turner, Some Wildflower In My Heart

“Indeed, the same millisecond of time can give birth to acts both poisonous and regenerative, both craven and noble, both trivial and momentous, as well as all gradations between.”
― Jamie Langston Turner, Some Wildflower In My Heart