Voices Quotes

“I welcomed who I was and left behind who I was not.”
― David Elliott, Voices

“Each decision that we make comes with a hidden price. We're never told what it is we may be asked to sacrifice.”
― David Elliott, Voices

“But I
have learned that life is more complex,
that the door between this world and
the next is sometimes left ajar,
and that each of us is more, far
more, than we are told we are.”
― David Elliott, Voices

“Every life is its own story-
not without a share of glory,
and not without a share of grief.
I lived like a hero at seventeen.
At nineteen, I die like a thief.”
― David Elliott, Voices

“Faith isn't for the faint of heart.
Both courage and naïveté are required.
To grasp its art,
you must look the other way
when all the omens seem to say
you will nog get what you desire,
so, though it may be a cliché
I put my faith in fire.”
― David Elliott, Voices

“Who can
say why some arrive and then depart forgotten
while others fashion history?”
― David Elliott, Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc

“Faith isn't for the faint of heart.
Both Courage and naivete
are required. To grasp its art,
you must look the other way
when all the omens seem to say
you will not get what you desire,
so, though it may be cliche,
I put my faith in fire.

-Saint Margaret”
― David Elliott, Voices

“Even now when at the end, with nothing left to lose, I cannot identify what I could never choose.”
― David Elliott, Voices

“I am a war cry,
bold and brash.
I am kindling.
I am ash,
an evanescent glory.”
― David Elliott, Voices

“What is a woman?
Her brothers' sister, her father's daughter,
Her husband's wife, her children's mother”
― David Elliott, Voices