A Refuge Assured Quotes

“God is the Creator, is He not?" she had said with a smile. "So when we create, even if it is a mere length of lace and not the stars in the heavens, we honor Him. We bear His likeness when we work.”
― Jocelyn Green, A Refuge Assured

“For a few moments, the women sat together in companionable quiet, the only sounds that of birdsong and hoofbeats and wagon wheels from outside. The dough rounding between Vienne's palms was smooth and soft, and the sight of the rolls filling the pan Paulette set on the table offered a certain satisfaction. Life remained complex and unreliable, but this was simple and predictable. A comfort.”
― Jocelyn Green, A Refuge Assured

“Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans. The two parties divide along their response to the French Revolution. The former is for a strong central government, the latter for the people’s individual freedoms.”
― Jocelyn Green, A Refuge Assured

“She and Martine had not divulged the details of their pasts, for sharing the present had been enough. Their friendship had been woven from slender threads, with blank spaces where secrets were kept. It was precious, nonetheless. A piece of lace, gently worked. The empty places were as meaningful as the strands that embraced them.”
― Jocelyn Green, A Refuge Assured

“Vienne had been wrong about grief, to think of it as mere sadness, to believe it could be dammed while inconvenient, or set free to run its course and then dry up. It was a crush in the chest, a sharp pull in the gut, pain that encircled back without warning. No respecter of time or will.”
― Jocelyn Green, A Refuge Assured