A Harvest of Secrets Quotes

“perhaps all the trouble in the world has, at its root, our insistence on denying others their full humanity”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets

“Before leaving the property, Vittoria had left this sketch. For him.”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets

“The surfaces fool us.”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets

“Sins are seeds. You plant them, then eat the fruit they produce.”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets

“Had he been sent to them like a kind of sun, pouring light into the world without asking for anything in return?”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets

“You can surrender to the evil or you can find a way to push back against it, that’s the choice,”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets

“It seemed to him that he was seeing Italy without its clothing, naked and crude, stripped of niceties.”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets

“apologize on behalf of the world’s rich and powerful, who never ended up in battle themselves, but seemed all too willing to send others off to die.”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets

“But, modest though it was, the building had always felt to Paolo like an anteroom of heaven.”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets

“the image her father liked to present of a famous estate in perfect working order, a famous family without blemish or trouble.”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets

“This life is a dream, my son. For each of us. But, within that dream, we still must act in a way that pleases the Lord, so that, when we awaken beyond the river of death, we shall be rewarded with the peace of His presence. Let the light of goodness guide you in everything you do. Make your difficult voyage the walk of love, and God shall give you an interior peace while you live, and welcome you to eternal peace when your life is finished.”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets

“it was the nature of war to ruin the earth and to separate people, to keep their fates unknown to the ones who loved them, and to fill the minds of the living with various kinds of fear, regret, shame, and anger, and deprive them of all but the most fleeting moments of peace.”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets

“Let the light of goodness guide you in everything you do. Make your difficult voyage the walk of love, and God shall give you an interior peace while you live, and welcome you to eternal peace when your life is finished.”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets

“perhaps all the trouble in the world has, at its root, our insistence on denying others their full humanity.”
― Roland Merullo, A Harvest of Secrets