Judy Croome > Quotes

“How easy it is to be bitter or angry; that's when you're at your weakest! But when you choose to be kind, to forget your hurt, that's when you find within the greatest strength of all.”
― Judy Croome, Dancing in the Shadows of Love

“I started writing to make sense of the world that exists inside my heart”
― Judy Croome

“Today's news is tomorrow's history.”
― Judy Croome, Dancing in the Shadows of Love

“The past could never be hidden [we must embrace] it with new hope and new dreams so that both past and present form one unified trunk that continues to shelter our people”
― Judy Croome, The Weight of a Feather and other stories

“My aloneness - my saving grace - only you hear my silent cries, only you carry me through the stasis of a world too real for angels and too unforgiving for dreamers.”
― Judy Croome, the dust of hope: rune poems

“Ordinary people can be heroes too,' he said, 'if they want to be.”
― Judy Croome, Dancing in the Shadows of Love

“I gasp my last sigh and realise how right Tree is: all is as it is, as it is meant to be.”
― Judy Croome, The Weight of a Feather and other stories

“Some heroes wake up and carry on, when carrying on is an intolerable burden: weighted with obscurity, loaded with loneliness, acknowledged by none - these are the quiet heroes we should call by one thousand holy names.”
― Judy Croome, the dust of hope: rune poems

“My hollowed heart hangs heavy, there, under the chest bone, hard and solid as a shield, ineffective against the loss of a love I never had and never will.”
― Judy Croome, A Stranger in a Strange Land

“The attics of the mind hold onto their dusty secrets and free them at inappropriate moments.”
― Judy Croome, Dancing in the Shadows of Love

“Scattered pieces of my soul, shredded between hope and despair...when this journey is over, and you are gone, how do I sew them back together? They lie across our murdered history, like blood on the floor, a stain not even time can erase.”
― Judy Croome, Drop by Drop

“There is yet time for all that is to come.”
― Judy Croome, Dancing in the Shadows of Love

“The road between ears winds through the sticky grey crevices of our brain, picking up a memory here, dropping off an idea there, gathering perceptions to mix and stew or slow roast to perfection the words you thought you heard, which are nothing like the words I spoke.”
― Judy Croome, A Stranger in a Strange Land

“In this world we live in, there are new warriors, those who face the world with naked souls. Stripped bare by loss and loneliness, they return to the world, transformed by the richness of courage and silence and a never-ending victory over their spirit. Leaving behind the old, the dead, they live when they had wanted to die: there -lost in the inner darkness - they followed the light leading the way.”
― Judy Croome, the dust of hope: rune poems

“Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom, nothing much changed for you when you were poor.”
― Judy Croome, The Weight of a Feather and other stories

“No, Zahra, dear, no! Gentleness isn’t weakness.’ Her hand, suspended in midair, trembled with emptiness and fell to her side. ‘How easy it is to be bitter or angry; that’s when you’re at your weakest! But when you choose to be kind, to forget your hurt, that’s when you find within the greatest strength of all.’ She smiled, oh, a smile of such ancient wisdom, her face shone with love. She waited, but when I wouldn’t smile back, she walked past me.”
― Judy Croome, Dancing in the Shadows of Love

“If you had let me love you, as only I can love - with a wildfire passion scorching the edges of your life - I would have given you all I had to give. Instead, you expected the worst of me, smothering my flames with your disdain, and dampening my spark with your condescension, until I lost myself in the heap of ashes entombing all that is the best of me.”
― Judy Croome, A Stranger in a Strange Land

“Have you ever stood alone in a wild meadow, smelling the rich soil rising over the grass crushed beneath your feet and watched the birth of a tree?”
― Judy Croome, the dust of hope: rune poems

“All these angry words I must hold into myself, choking on the fumes of what cannot be said: only wept.”
― Judy Croome, Drop by Drop

“The spirit of Love wraps the darkness in small sacred seconds, uplifting our bent and broken souls with the miracle of love as yet unspent.”
― Judy Croome, Drop by Drop

“Only later-looking back through the years-do we come to realise those ordinary choices are often the critical turning point in our destiny.”
― Judy Croome, Dancing in the Shadows of Love

“My love, do not leave me, for without you I am but a leaf tossed in a tornado ... and, if ever you should leave me, I'll forever be lost in the darkness.”
― Judy Croome, Drop by Drop

“Camouflage your soul! Hide!Hide!Hide! The gender police are here. The gender police are everywhere.”
― Judy Croome, A Lamp at Midday

“Writing is like bungee jumping for the soul...you take a deep breath, plunge into the abyss and hope the rope tethering you to the real world doesn't snap.”
― Judy Croome

“One day you realise your old life was only an escape from an inner silence”
― Judy Croome, A Lamp at Midday

“Baffled and disgruntled, I fill my Woolworths trolley with dead turkey and lamb, and wonder when Love was lost, among the Christmas crowd.”
― Judy Croome, A Lamp at Midday