A Hero's Tale Quotes

“Sometimes even now I entertain the hope that Love lives in the world independently of us, but when I am most courageous, I believe that love was born within the human heart, and that the survival of love in the world, as well as its ultimate triumph, is entirely our responsibility.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“I trusted her not to be careless with my heart or with my feelings. I trusted her to understand and to accept what might be broken or imperfect. In some dusty corner there may be things I tossed away, forgotten, things that might once have shamed me. I trusted her with those things too. I trusted her to accept me as she found me and to love me as I was, as I loved her.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“Before I loved Maara, life seemed filled with endless possibility, yet I knew even then what I was waiting for. Love was only an idea to me then, something to hope for, a promise of happiness, insubstantial and immortal, until it found the one to settle on. Now love and Maara were one and the same, and love had become as mortal as she was.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“It seemed to me a wicked tale, to blame a woman for men's folly.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“Aamah would sometimes remind them that the story of an old disputte should be retold only when no aftertaste of bitterness remains upon the tongue.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“What is it that we search for? Every child knows the answer. We search for love. Love is our shelter. Love is our purpose. Love is why we are here.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“If my love for Maara depended on her love for me, it was not love, but a bargain.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“It is true that a little nudge from you has moved the world, but when that happens, the world was already inclined to move.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“Let us take care not to yield to evil's power, because evil has no power but what we give it.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“I would follow her. I would search the world for her, and if she were to leave this world for another, I would follow her there too. I would love my life for as long as Maara lived. More than that no one could demand of me, not even my own gods.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“Will your woman's heart endanger us?" he asked me. "Tell me now."
"What does my woman's heart have to do with anything?”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“A woman counsels caution, while a man's heart burns to see justice done.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“This was how she saw the world. It could take from her in a moment everything she loved. It could deny her anything she wanted. The world had granted me almost my every wish, and none more precious to me than this one. The world had granted her only this.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“we might take a lesson from the stories of people who tried to prevent some future evil, and in the course of trying, caused the very evil they were trying to prevent.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“Why do we bother living? I could not now imagine how I had once found life so sweet. I could not find that girl at all. I tried to remember her, and knew that she’d had something I did not.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“Now there was nothing I could do but reconcile myself to the greatest loss of all. Greater than the loss of life itself, I thought it was, because death brings forgetfulness. While I lived, I would remember.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“They say revenge is sweet. Revenge is not as sweet as love.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale