A Time to Speak Quotes

“Don't strive to belong, Parvin. Your effort is much better placed elsewhere.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak

“But she does it anyway, and I sit beside her...because strength is a choice.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak

“The promise of uncertainty changes how I live. It urges me to live... more, as if the very seconds prior to every sunset will be my last. That's the way it's suppose to be.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak

“Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. I don't think He wants us to keep asking and dwelling on His specific plan or will. He wants us to dwell on and seek Him. Then our decisions will be made from our love for and relationship with Him. We are free to take action in whatever means we want as long as we seek Him and allow Him to guide us.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak

“Besides, who says I need to figure out love all at once? It's not a sudden thing. It's gradual, creeping in like a secret and then whispering hints over the cycle of time until you step back and see that all the hints lead to love.
Mother once said love is a choice, not a feeling. But don't feelings come from our choices? Or maybe our choices come from our feelings. I don't know.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak

“He wants us to dwell on and seek Him. Then our decisions will be made from our love for and relationship with Him.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak

“wait, you should know, I...I love you."

"I loved you first, Miss Blackwater.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak

“To love you to the max is to do what God calls me to do - to help you grow closer to him, to endure with you, to pursue shalom with you, to hope for all things, to suffer with you. To be an example of Christ to you.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak

“Mother was wrong. I'm not meant to just live. I'm meant to follow my passions, with God at the front.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak

“I run through the plan in my head.
Get to the station undetected. Yeah, right.
Sneak in. Knock, knock. . .
Steal an Enforcer uniform. Preferably from a peg on the wall, not from a body.
Get into the Enforcer uniform. Hurray for having only one hand.
Find the maintenance room. Anyone have a map?
With any luck, it will control the projected Wall. Riiiiiight.
Destroy it. Should've brought a hammer.
No big deal, right?”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak

“Solomon did something I didn't like and I don't know how to swallow it.

...

He needs to know, to understand how deserted I felt.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak

“It's strange talking to Enforcer Hawk."

"Enforcer Hawk - or Solomon, which I think sounds much more appealing - is the same man who sought your freedom prior to your trial." A brief smile lines his voice. "The same man on the other side of your NAB sending you messages. The same man who asked Jude to protect you."

The car slows. "The same man who, three days ago, desperately prayed out of selfishness that you would live, even when he knew you wanted to die."

"Oh." It's all I can get out.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak

“He smiles. I smile. I think we're having a moment. One where we're not thinking about our dead brothers. But then, I guess now I am thinking about our dead brothers. Drat.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak

“to a High City with him . . . alone. And those who know he lives in the”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak