Catherine M. Wilson > Quotes

“I didn’t know what being young had to do with it. It seemed to me that older people could do foolish things just as easily as young ones. I had certainly seen older people do some very foolish things.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“Sometimes even now I entertain the hope that Love lives in the world independently of us, but when I am most courageous, I believe that love was born within the human heart, and that the survival of love in the world, as well as its ultimate triumph, is entirely our responsibility.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“When someone insults me, it makes me angry.” “If that’s true, then your feelings will always be at the mercy of others.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“I’m not sure I understand you,” she said. “Are you telling me you saved my life because you were angry with me?” The idea struck me funny. “Yes,” I said, trying not to smile. “Furious.” “Furious?” “Enraged,” I said. “Oh dear.” And then she smiled.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“Were there once only women warriors, Mother?” “Don’t know.” “Oh.” I started to get up. “Makes sense,” she said. “Why?” “Who else should take a life? No man ever brought a child out of his body.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“Losing her was the worst of it, but loving her hurt almost as much sometimes.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“I trusted her not to be careless with my heart or with my feelings. I trusted her to understand and to accept what might be broken or imperfect. In some dusty corner there may be things I tossed away, forgotten, things that might once have shamed me. I trusted her with those things too. I trusted her to accept me as she found me and to love me as I was, as I loved her.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“When your body feels pain,” she said at last, “you try to find the cause and do something to stop it, because your pain is warning you of a real danger. When your heart feels pain, you need to find the cause of that too, because the danger is no less real, and your pain will grow worse until you understand what caused it. Only then will you know what can be done to stop it.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“Your task will be to let your heart grow large enough not to break.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“Before I loved Maara, life seemed filled with endless possibility, yet I knew even then what I was waiting for. Love was only an idea to me then, something to hope for, a promise of happiness, insubstantial and immortal, until it found the one to settle on. Now love and Maara were one and the same, and love had become as mortal as she was.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“I felt like a bird, caged all its life, set free by an open window and cowering upon the windowsill.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“All I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief and some from joy. Some even break from love. But hearts break because they are too small to contain the gifts life gives us. Your task will be to let your heart grow large enough not to break.” Namet”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“It seemed to me a wicked tale, to blame a woman for men's folly.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“As I lay in the darkness with the thong around my wrist, I believed I understood Gnith's spell. The thong was more than long enough, but every time Maara moved, I felt it move with her. It kept me constantly aware of her, and if a person's thoughts are with someone, how can she break away to go with someone else? When I slept, my warriors walked in my dreams, and in my dreams, the thong that bound us was not from wrist to wrist, but from heart to heart.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“Every thing in the world can wait but one. Only love can’t wait.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“How could that be a choice? When someone insults me, it makes me angry.” “If that’s true, then your feelings will always be at the mercy of others.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“Food is the distance you can travel in a day, and the cold you can withstand at night.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“For the first time I understood something my grandmother told me years before, that it's not our deeds that hurt us, but what they make us believe about ourselves.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“I only wanted her to hold still for a little while, and not to mind that I loved her.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“I knew what she was doing. Each touch was a question. She was asking me what I would give and what I would withhold, what I would reveal, what I would hide. I had told her that I loved her. Perhaps she was unsure of what I meant, and now she was asking me the questions she couldn’t frame in words. How much of myself would I give her? How much was hers?”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“Aamah would sometimes remind them that the story of an old disputte should be retold only when no aftertaste of bitterness remains upon the tongue.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“Think of a woman whose body has made a child. Who gave birth to it. Cradled and nursed it. Loved it. She will hold life dear differently than someone who has not.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“Because you didn’t know you had a choice.” “What choice?” “To be angry or not.” It was the silliest thing I’d ever heard. “That’s not a choice.” “Yes,” she said. “It is.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“It took me a long time to learn that I didn’t have to feel what someone wanted me to feel, but once I learned it, it became a habit. It’s a useful habit. Because I wasn’t angry, I was able to think clearly about what was the best thing to do.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“I wondered how it was possible to be so happy and so miserable all at once.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“A woman with a warrior’s heart shouldn’t fear the truth,” she said. “No weapon in the world is stronger than the truth.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path

“What is it that we search for? Every child knows the answer. We search for love. Love is our shelter. Love is our purpose. Love is why we are here.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Hero's Tale

“We trust death to spare us the infirmities of age or the pain of an illness or an injury that is past healing. We trust death to comfort us with forgetfulness of life's sorrows. We trusted that death was a passageway fro life to life.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“It would be better for you if you were not my friend."
"It's too late for that," I told her.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, The Warrior's Path