The Passion of Dolssa Quotes

“That which you tend, you come to adore with the kind of love that bypasses sense and reason.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“The pure song of a nightingale, a rossinhol, rang across the water, ending in a trill. It was an hour for sprites and fairies. What magic might lurk among the riverbank grasses? Anything was possible just before dawn.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“To be needed is one way to be safe. The other is to have money.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“What they don't understand, they destroy.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“She is a storm cloud of sorrow. You wander in, you may never find your way out.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“How curious. How rare. How little we ever know anyone.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“Like rays of glory from heaven, piercing the dusty gloom of the church, making each airborne mote shine like a star.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“When searching out a history, sifting through a thousand facts and ten thousand lives, one often uncovers pieces that do not fit.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“He caught me up on wings of light, and showed me the realms of his creation, the glittering gemstones paving his heaven. He left my body weak and spent, my spirit gorged with honey.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“But the soul burning behind those eyes made me shiver. Ageless, ancient. As if it couldn't belong to this dull world.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“La luna hung beautifully bright over the horizon, in a sky still dark. Cold breezes blew over the river and ruffled the tall grasses along the bank, making them rustle and chatter. In their waving fronds I sensed small animals stirring. The pure song of a nightingale, a rossinhol, rang across the water, ending in a trill. It was an hour for sprites and fairies. What magic might lurk among the riverbank grasses? Anything was possible just before dawn.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“Now I am all alone. My only comfort is my sweet little cat. I'm just an old woman, waiting to die.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“Loving him made me rich in ways I'd too long been poor.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“Would those who knew me ever recognize me? I couldn't recognize myself.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“I wouldn't have believed that after so much pain, my heart could still handle this kind of joy.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“Sometimes, in the night, I thought of all the ways life could have been different.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“I couldn't tell what was real and what was my own fright.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“So gently did they fall, like feathers gliding on a breeze. They disappeared, like foxes slipping into their holes. There, and then not there.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“Home was each other. Not walls, but the adventure of the search to find them.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“But it was a pitiable thing to watch a human soul treated worse than one would ever treat a donkey. It always was. No matter how many times I'd seen it before.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“I had tried to do right, but once again my best efforts had led to disaster.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“Was my gladness sin?”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“People are nothing but vexation. I avoid them.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“She flexed her fingers, as if she were ready to tear justice out of someone's skin.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“God protects and keeps his own, does he not?”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“I sit here and watch the world pass by, since I can't go greet it myself anymore.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“Children will argue, and if you stop them, they never learn how to fix things themselves.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“But poor as we were, we could afford to think about affection.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“There's quite a difference between "almost never" and "never never".”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa

“Odd cases like his intrigued me.”
― Julie Berry, The Passion of Dolssa