For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain Quotes

“I was wearing myself out to no purpose. I wondered if my mind was unravelling. What would that be like? All the threads come loose, waving in the wind, Perhaps I no longer wished to be ravelled.”
― Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

“I have never found it easy to begin speaking. To disturb the silence. Why should I assume that I'll be listened to? Why should anyone assume that their voice, words, song, should fill the mind of another? To displace every other possible sound or word? To displace God?”
― Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

“The nights were hardest. Night asks many questions that day turns her face from.”
― Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

“Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, sprung from a bow in God's service.”
― Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain