The Wild Swans Quotes

“There is always a choice," she said. "Why didn't you come and ask me at least?"

"Because I believed him and thought you had tricked me. Because I had wanted so much to hear you speak, hear you say my name, and he told me that you could speak, that you sang with the lamyrs, and I didn't know what to think, and I felt angry for being so stupid to have fallen in love with you and to think you loved me and ..."

Eliza put her finger to the prince's lips, to silence him.

"It is a terrible thing to do to a person, to burn them to death, whatever they might have done.”
― Jackie Morris, The Wild Swans

“The day that she stopped
speaking was the day
she began to understand
so much more about
the world around her,
to appreciate the many
textures of silence.

She learned to listen.”
― Jackie Morris, The Wild Swans