The Widow's Season Quotes

“Looking at the children, she knew that any hope for a new life would have to grow within her. She glanced at Nate, wondering if he felt as she did, that children were the only consolation in this world, the only recompense for so much suffering.”
― Laura Brodie, The Widow's Season

“I am eager for the pleasures of the flesh
More than for salvation,
My soul is dead,
So I shall look after the flesh.”
― Laura Brodie, The Widow's Season

“Was it possible to love a man who made you feel ridiculous? Of course [.....], love was complicated, that was all. Or was love simple, and marriage was complicated? In seventeen years of marriage David had often left her feeling frustrated, and furious, and disgusted, yes - but he had also made her feel beautiful, and protected, and loved. And oh, what she would give to feel loved right now.”
― Laura Brodie, The Widow's Season

“Then she had understood how it was possible for a man to do nothing wrong, and still to be wrong, day after day.”
― Laura Brodie, The Widow's Season