A Name Unknown Quotes

“He'd stolen her heart right out of her chest when she wasn't looking, and she hadn't the foggiest idea how to get it back. And didn't want to. He'd take better care of it than she ever could anyway.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“Fiction is a way to express mankind’s deepest heart. His fears. His hopes. His failings. His successes. Fiction is truth . . . in a pretty wrapping.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“And the best sort of villain is smart and subtle and so very tricky that you don't even know he's the villain, because he thinks himself the hero in his own story.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“First he prayed, there with iron gall and paper,”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“But after a pulse, his face relaxed, and amusement kindled in his eyes. “You’re . . . you’re very c-clever, aren’t you?” It shouldn’t have warmed her. But she couldn’t quite help that her smile went genuine. “Not the word most often chosen, sir. But I’ll take it.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“Have you ever even met a thief? Hollow certainly hasn’t, or he would know well that thieves have reasons beyond compulsion or selfishness for stealing, most of the time. But he made absolutely no attempt to dig deeper into Masters’s motives. Into his psychology.” She said psychology so wrongly it took him a moment to realize what she meant—she pronounced the P at the beginning, and the ch as the usual ch rather than like a k. “Psy . . . psychology. It’s pronounced psychology.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“Strawberries.” Willa slid those eyes shut now and loosed a blissful sigh. “If there are more tomorrow, save me one. I saw some in the village, but they were too dear.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“Above all, Peter, we must be gentle. Self-controlled. This is how others see the love of Christ in us.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“It was dark. With her eyes closed and the crying surrounding her and with this gaping hole inside. It was so dark. It had always been dark, but she'd never known it fully. Because she'd never seen that light shining just out of reach. Now she did. She saw it. It was partly Peter, with all his goodness. His nobility and his quiet strength and his silly quirks and his utter niceness. It was partly Peter, shining there. But it was mostly what shone through him.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“She was proud, was Rosemary. And stubborn and outspoken and bold and witty and clever, and she looked at things in a way no one else did. He needed her to stay. He needed to hear her opinions, her exasperations. He needed her to point out where his thinking wasn’t deep enough, the things he’d forgotten to question . . . He needed her.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“It shouldn’t be fire. How could it be, when Peter was all cool reactions and self-control? He’d never sent her a smoldering look. Never flirted, not until just that moment. He’d never been anything but a friend. A gentleman, in the real sense. The true sense.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“God will hear. He does not always answer the way we want, but He always hears- and not just me. He hears anyone who comes to Him in humility. Anyone who is willing to let go of the idea that they can fix it all on their own and instead submit to His will. That is when people see Him work. That is when miracles can happen. That is when lives are forever changed by His touch.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“Look, Mr. Holstein. We’ll all stand with you – but in order to do so, you got to stand too. For yourself.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“She'd be gone tomorrow. But she'd miss him every day for the rest of her life.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown

“Surely he could find something else to add to her list of tasks, to keep her here until . . . until he came up with another way to keep her here.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Name Unknown