Emily Hayse > Quotes

“Only in the army do they congratulate you as they send you to die.”
― Emily Hayse, The Rivers Lead Home and Other Stories

“Over me hangs a silver canopy of stars, like the diamonds set in chandeliers out East.
But I'd take these stars and the pines stretching tall enough to rake them out of the dark sky over those diamonds any day.
The beautiful stillness of the night overtakes me and my eyes well with tears. There is nothing more beautiful than one's home, one's stars, and the smell of the trees standing like sentinels around the land you love.”
― Emily Hayse, The Beautiful Ones

“Sometimes it takes pain and sorrow to make us see how wonderful the real world is. But more powerful than pain, I think, is beauty. It can break our hearts more than sorrow can, because it is more lasting. After pain and sorrow end, there is still beauty.”
― Emily Hayse, Yours, Constance

“It may be that we will not live to see the glad ending," he recites. "But when we are gone, these darkened fields that have held so much sorrow - they will be called glorious.”
― Emily Hayse, In the Glorious Fields

“They tell you, when you join the army—when you sit at those rigid desks at the academy, studying the brilliant strategists of the past—that one day you will reach your impossible choice. Twenty-three years, and I’ve reached mine.”
― Emily Hayse, The Rivers Lead Home and Other Stories