Sherry Jones > Quotes

“...but I realized now that love was more than a feeling. Love was something you did for another person...”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“I placed a bowl of herbs and ointments in the window of my bedroom, and let the scented breeze carry him away . . .”
― Sherry Jones, The Sharp Hook of Love: A Novel of Heloise and Abelard

“How many times in life have I been advised to "toe the line," to "tone it down," to stop "pushing the envelope"? As a journalist, I had to keep my opinions to myself for 30 years. I thought that, as an artist, I'd have the liberty to express my views. Now I'm told that doing so might hurt my readership.

I'm so idealistic, as I said elsewhere on FB today, that I think people ought to read my books because they're good. Period.”
― Sherry Jones

“Trying to forge my own destiny had nearly destroyed me, but his love held the power to heal.”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“With him, I became utterly myself as never before - and, to my astonishment, when I looked into his eyes like mirrors reflecting myself back to me, I admired the person I beheld there.”
― Sherry Jones, The Sharp Hook of Love: A Novel of Heloise and Abelard

“Running away has been futile. Wherever I went life would be the same. Resisting my chains only seem to tighten them. Yet all around me women found ways to slip those bonds, to discreetly flout the rules and then return to their so-called captivity before anyone noticed.”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Al-Lah alone decides whether we live or die. The rest is vanity.”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Tenía en mis manos la posibilidad de vivir la vida que yo deseaba; no luchando ni huyendo, sino recurriendo a mi ingenio.”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Were every man to live according to his desires alone, the world would descend into chaos”
― Sherry Jones, The Sharp Hook of Love: A Novel of Heloise and Abelard

“Hasta que aprendiera a controlarme a mí misma, no sería capaz de controlar mi destino”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Each day was an unfinished thought. Night was a secret bursting to be told.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Al-Lah alone decides whether we live or die. The rest is vanity.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“A truth that displeases is better than a lie that pleases.

~Abu Bakr”
― Sherry Jones, The Sword of Medina

“I’d rather be a lone lioness, roaring and free, than a caged bird without even a name to call my own.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“For me, life before him was a blot on the page, as inscrutable as the existence of my soul before birth.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“That none of us is ever alive until we can shape our own destinies. Until we can choose.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“We cannot escape our destinies, even in death. But we can claim them, and give them shape.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“You are less young than you were before, and you will be older tomorrow than you are today.

~al-Abbas”
― Sherry Jones, The Sword of Medina

“Make certain you control your destiny, or it will control you.

~Umm Ruman”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“We cup the truth in our hands like water, trying to contain it, watching it slip away. Truth is too slippery to hold. It must be passed on, or it slides like rain into the earth, to disappear.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“We cannot escape our destinies, even in death. But we can claim them, and give them shape.”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“His eyes were like bronze mirrors that reflected only my loveliness and none of my flaws.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Sword of Medina

“I don’t need poetry to know about love. My love for you has taught me plenty about heartache.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“I might shape my destiny—but I couldn’t run from it. This much I had learned from my mistakes

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“I might shape my destiny—but I couldn’t run from it. This much I had learned from my mistakes.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Glory is as easy to grasp as a dagger. It draws attention to its bearer like a blade flashing in the sun. Honor, on the other hand, requires discipline and compassion and self-respect. It often works silently, without recognition or the desire for it. Honor comes only after years of effort and, once grasped, is even more difficult to hold.

~Abu Bakr”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina

“Love is not a dish of tharid, Muhammad had told me once—meaning I didn’t need to be greedy because the human capacity for love is limitless.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Sword of Medina

“I realized now that love was more than a feeling. Love was something you did for another person.

~Ai’sha”
― Sherry Jones, The Jewel of Medina