Hilary Davidson > Quotes

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. —George Eliot”
― Hilary Davidson, Her Last Breath

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”
― Hilary Davidson, Her Last Breath

“Dripping water pierces a stone.”
― Hilary Davidson, Her Last Breath

“By making the choice to stay you are participating in a crime.”
― Hilary Davidson, Her Last Breath

“The glamour of inexperience is over your eyes,” Mr. Rochester answered; “and you see it through a charmed medium: you cannot discern that the gilding is slime and the silk draperies cobwebs; that the marble is sordid slate, and the polished woods mere refuse chips and scaly bark.”
― Hilary Davidson, Her Last Breath

“He had nothing against cops, per se—he had a cousin on the force in Philly, after all—but he never liked dealing with them directly”
― Hilary Davidson, One Small Sacrifice

“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. —William Butler Yeats”
― Hilary Davidson, One Small Sacrifice

“Mother Teresa said that for a sacrifice to be real, it must cost, must hurt, and we must empty ourselves,”
― Hilary Davidson, One Small Sacrifice

“You’re a tough guy, aren’t you?” Tough was the biggest compliment my family offered. Nice was fine, smart was good, but tough was what we aimed for.”
― Hilary Davidson, Her Last Breath

“All I know for sure right now is that my sister gave me a small fraction of the truth.” “I don’t want to sound like a cynical lawyer,” he said. “But I think that’s all anybody ever gives anyone.”
― Hilary Davidson, Her Last Breath

“It’s not easy to separate a person from their programming.”
― Hilary Davidson, One Small Sacrifice

“It’s a panic attack, he told himself. That’s all it is. But knowing that fact and somehow separating himself from the tentacles of fear and dread were different things.”
― Hilary Davidson, One Small Sacrifice

“REGARDE ST. CHRISTOPHE ET VA-T-EN RASSURÉ. “Behold Saint Christopher and go on in safety,”
― Hilary Davidson, One Small Sacrifice

“Instinct’s not a superpower. It’s made of experience and memory and belief.”
― Hilary Davidson, One Small Sacrifice

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. —Niccolò Machiavelli”
― Hilary Davidson, Her Last Breath

“those who have patience to do simple things perfectly”
― Hilary Davidson, Her Last Breath