My Name Is Mary Sutter Quotes

“In some ways I liked the struggle better, I think. It clarified what was important.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name Is Mary Sutter

“For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name Is Mary Sutter

“Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name Is Mary Sutter

“How women defeat one another; how need defeats women.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name Is Mary Sutter

“There came a time when she was no longer a petite woman that courtesy demanded they hear out; instead, she became the woman who might actually save them.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter

“Choose who you are, he whispered into her ear. Choose who you'll be.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name Is Mary Sutter

“Sometimes, he felt himself not so much at his wit’s end, but witless.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter

“Why is it that voices break hearts?”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name Is Mary Sutter

“The body was a structure, yes, with struts and piping, but something else, some miraculous, invisible fabric made it work.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter

“Lincoln simply could not understand a man who could not see his own fallibility. Irony lost in the blind pursuit of cacophonous righteousness. I wish to be free, but you may not be free. What he hated most was that they could not see the inherent cruelty in their economy. Their slaves’ skin might be black, but it was not as black as the souls who might enslave them.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter

“He had not wanted to tell her that happiness was the province of the young, that with each passing year you lose your hold on it, that it was as fleeting a pleasure as the falling stars.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter

“What was striving for if all you learned was that your stubbornness led you places you never wanted to be in order to do things you never thought you would do?”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter

“Something sparked the body to live, propelled the heart to beat, the brain to think, the structure to live on,”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter

“God’s work, then, and whether God existed or not, he would act as if He did, on faith, for he could deduce no other reason in the end for man’s existence.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter

“what Lee and Jefferson Davis didn’t understand was that to destroy a union founded on freedom was to declare all of humanity’s endeavors foolhardy.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter

“All through the hotel, beds scraped, feet thumped to the floor. The future dead, rising to forestall.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter

“Her hand was calloused and the nails ragged and broken; it felt heavy in his, like responsibility.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter