Heather Day Gilbert

“My dear husband Thomas has informed me that I can't walk without natural hip action. The more I slow to adjust my walk, the more my hips determine to swing of their own accord.”

“Some are born to love, and some to fight. How can I ever succeed at both?”

“I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.”

“What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.”

“Judgment doesn’t always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.”

“There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.”

“Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared.”

“I am happy to be alone. Perhaps this is true. Or perhaps I am the biggest coward of all.”

“A married man is a preoccupied man.”

“Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load.”

“I'm not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I'm a weak woman. He thinks wrong.”

“If we are to survive, I must start and end my war this same day.”