Beheld Quotes

“One cannot reason a person out of something they did not reason themselves into.”
― TaraShea Nesbit, Beheld

“am forty again, laundering, my children kicking around my feet. A burden it felt, all those requests to be picked up when there were so many tasks to do. What I would give now though, to do it all again, to hear my daughter, two years old, say, Mum, please.”
― TaraShea Nesbit, Beheld

“In our hearts, we were pilgrims”
― TaraShea Nesbit, Beheld

“Nowadays, I must climb up to Burial Hill to visit my friends.”
― TaraShea Nesbit, Beheld

“In my vainest of moments, I like to think I would have seen the light bend toward an irretrievable darkness, and turned it elsewhere.”
― TaraShea Nesbit, Beheld

“What things, Master Billington, will you possibly need at the gallows?”
― TaraShea Nesbit, Beheld

“Dogs are not fooled by fine cloth and endless quotations from Scripture.”
― TaraShea Nesbit, Beheld

“God cares for us by selecting some things for us to forget.”
― TaraShea Nesbit, Beheld

“Oh how happy it would have been if you had instead converted some … where blood has once begun to be shed, it is seldom staunched for long time after … you will say they deserved it, but it is a thing more glorious in men’s eyes than pleasing to God to be a terror to poor, barbarous people. Once there is bloodshed, there will be more.”
― TaraShea Nesbit, Beheld

“All I had to protect myself was my mouth. So I spoketh.”
― TaraShea Nesbit, Beheld