The Priest and the Lily Quotes

“The truth was that he loved her as he had never loved anyone in his life before, with a love so strong it made him tremble at the violence of his feelings.”
― Sanjida O'Connell, The Priest and the Lily

“The land became more rocky and he wandered through thin canyons where the wind whispered like a lover or howled like an assassin. The stone was layered as a terrine with fossils: the leaves of trees that had existed when the land was fertile; giant pachyderms; the fearsome teeth and claws of rapacious dinosaurs; and once a piece of cranium and part of the jaw bone of a creature that heralded humanity yet whose skull was distinctly ape-like in origin. Joseph held these bones in his hands and felt a connection between himself and the earth that sang a song of evolution, a lost melody he strained to hear like the last lingering notes of perfume belonging to the one woman he loved.”
― Sanjida O'Connell, The Priest and the Lily

“He was like a few notes scattered in a strong wind, the backbone of melody long since blown out to sea.”
― Sanjida O'Connell, The Priest and the Lily

“I gave you my wolf and I would have tamed an eagle for you. I have waited to see you again when none believed that you should ever return; I would have waited for ever.”
― Sanjida O'Connell, The Priest and the Lily

“You will journey far beyond the boundaries of your imagination. You will meet and seize your heart’s desire. It will be the death of your soul.”
― Sanjida O'Connell, The Priest and the Lily

“We are like two wild birds destined to blow where the wilderness of the wind takes us. Your spirit is as untrammelled as an eagle’s, as loyal, as courageous. It is the secret of our souls: what we have, we have for ever.”
― Sanjida O'Connell, The Priest and the Lily