Robyn Cadwallader > Quotes

“A few words from me won’t touch your grief, and nor should they. Tend your grief like hard ground, and wait. One day, something will grow; there won’t be an answer, but you will see you’ve found a way to live, and to live with death.”
― Robyn Cadwallader, The Anchoress

“Disturbance only comes into the heart from something that has been seen or heard, tasted or smelled, and felt outwardly.”
― Robyn Cadwallader, The Anchoress

“Anger, while it lasts, so blinds the heart that it is unable to discern the truth. It is a kind of enchanter, which can transform human nature. Anger is a shape-shifter, as stories tell us, for it strips people of their reason and totally changes their appearance, and transforms them from a human into the likeness of a beast.”
― Robyn Cadwallader, The Anchoress: A Novel

“Tend your grief like hard ground, and wait. One day, something will grow; there won’t be an answer, but you will see you’ve found a way to live, and to live with death.”
― Robyn Cadwallader, The Anchoress: A Novel

“The parchment whispered as I turned the pages, word after word. *”
― Robyn Cadwallader, The Anchoress: A Novel

“We all need stories, don’t we?’ He’d looked up at Ranaulf. ‘For our hearts, I think.”
― Robyn Cadwallader, The Anchoress

“But this was different, as if some creature had risen from a corner of my cell and taken over every part of me. It swallowed meaning. I hadn't thought suffering would be like this, so ordinary, so dull, and so endless.”
― Robyn Cadwallader

“EPIGRAPH ’Tis not that Dying hurts us so — ’Tis Living — hurts us more — But Dying — is a different way — A Kind behind the Door — The Southern Custom — of the Bird — That ere the Frosts are due — Accepts a better Latitude — We — are the Birds — that stay. Emily Dickinson”
― Robyn Cadwallader, The Anchoress

“I hadn’t thought suffering would be like this, so ordinary, so dull, and so endless.”
― Robyn Cadwallader, The Anchoress

“Melancholy is slower, harder to discern than fever, but I’ve seen men die of less than this.”
― Robyn Cadwallader, Book of Colours

“though I would have to trust the words to say what my heart would not. *”
― Robyn Cadwallader, The Anchoress: A Novel

“he needed her to remind him, beyond his own fears, of what mercy looked like. *”
― Robyn Cadwallader, The Anchoress: A Novel