A Journey of the Heart Quotes

“Losing her was the worst of it, but loving her hurt almost as much sometimes.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“Your task will be to let your heart grow large enough not to break.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“All I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief and some from joy. Some even break from love. But hearts break because they are too small to contain the gifts life gives us. Your task will be to let your heart grow large enough not to break.” Namet”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“For the first time I understood something my grandmother told me years before, that it's not our deeds that hurt us, but what they make us believe about ourselves.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“I knew what she was doing. Each touch was a question. She was asking me what I would give and what I would withhold, what I would reveal, what I would hide. I had told her that I loved her. Perhaps she was unsure of what I meant, and now she was asking me the questions she couldn’t frame in words. How much of myself would I give her? How much was hers?”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“I only wanted her to hold still for a little while, and not to mind that I loved her.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“We trust death to spare us the infirmities of age or the pain of an illness or an injury that is past healing. We trust death to comfort us with forgetfulness of life's sorrows. We trusted that death was a passageway fro life to life.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“I wondered how it was possible to be so happy and so miserable all at once.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“Beloved,” I said, “my heart is full to bursting with things it doesn’t understand. If they stay there, locked away, they’ll die there, or they’ll break my heart to pieces trying to get out. All I want is for you to want those things. Touch the door. One touch from you and it will spring open.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“The more I thought about it, the more I believed that it was impossible not to hope, and few things could be more painful than to hope for love only to be constantly disappointed.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“I was certain we would have found one another though worlds had separated us”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“Why is it that wisdom comes to us too late to do us any good?”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“I felt her yield, not only to my touch and to my kiss, but to the truth at the heart of my words, that I knew the price of love and had agreed to pay it.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“She tried to make me understand. Her meaning slipped into the darkest places in my heart and showed me my own fear. I clung to her, as if she could be my shield against it. It would be a long time before I understood that fear is only the dark face of love.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“No one taught me about love,” said Maara. “It comes to me like a visitor. It sits like a guest at my fire for a little while, but it never stays.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“Hatred can be just as blind as love,”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“Love is a bird of prey,” she said. “While her feathers caress your face, her talons tear at your heart.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“She took me by the hand and led me into the light of a world no one else had ever shown me.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“the love in Merin’s eyes would have held me until time ended, if I had been the object of it. When she closed her eyes again, it took me some time to grow accustomed to the dark.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“We trusted death to spare us the infirmities of age or the pains of an illness or an injury that is past healing. We trusted death to comfort us with forgetfulness of life's sorrows. We trusted that death was a passageway from life to life, and that the spirit, freed of the body it had outworn, would again clothe itself in flesh and time.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“Merin may appear hard on the outside, but hard things are brittle, and when they break, they shatter.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“I wanted her to give me the gift of her past, so that I would no longer be shut out from any part of her life.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“Hatred can be just as blind as love”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“It would be a long time before I understood that fear is only the dark face of love.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“Again and again I asked for permission. May I? Here? And here? Is this too much? Too little? Can you hear me? This is my heart.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart