The Confessions of X Quotes

“I am the living heart of a tree uncovered by the ax, still pliable, still green and full of sap.”
― Suzanne M. Wolfe, The Confessions of X

“A dream-like state enveloped us, days filled with sunlight, the creamy churn of waves as the ship plunged and reared like a mettlesome horse, the flash of silver spray against our faces and, at night, a canopy of white-hot stars in blackness so deep it seemed as if I could stretch out my hand and plunge it wrist-deep into the velvet of it.”
― Suzanne M. Wolfe, The Confessions of X

“We desire what is beautiful and restlessly seek it out. When we find it, we find God.”
― Suzanne M. Wolfe, The Confessions of X

“Remember this,” she said softly. “Men think themselves strong, though they are weak; women are strong, though we are thought weak. It falls on us to bear the sorrows of this world.”
― Suzanne M. Wolfe, The Confessions of X

“You must look through a window and see the world as it really is, not split like two halves of a broken cup but whole and undivided. How else can it hold wine?”
― Suzanne M. Wolfe, The Confessions of X

“On becoming a mother, I had forever left that solitary state of girlhood behind, and if I sometimes pined to be alone with Augustine as we used to be in our first love, a quick glance at my sleeping son's face soon banished such foolish thoughts. It was as if Augustine and I had been in a beautiful bubble but when my body split open in childbirth, the shimmering membrane broke and we were delivered to the world.”
― Suzanne M. Wolfe, The Confessions of X

“Paradox,” he said, “is the space God gives us for the exercise of the will. And our attraction to beauty is what He gives us to draw the will. We desire what is beautiful and restlessly seek it out. When we find it, we find God.”
― Suzanne M. Wolfe, The Confessions of X