Janet Rich Edwards > Quotes

“Men. Always pissing outside of their chamber pots.”
― Janet Rich Edwards

“He looks at her then, her Christ, with his wounded eyes, and she sees what she had not seen before. He is in love. He is in love with her, he is in love with the sparrow and the river, he is in love with the root and trunk and flower of it all, the entire creation, and his fear and his love are inseparable. He has love even for the fear, and it is through the vulnerable door, the portal of fear, the spear in his side that will come tomorrow, that Aleys glimpses, for a fleeting moment, the unutterable vastness of her beloved.”
― Janet Rich Edwards, Canticle: A Novel

“Only the children are unimpressed, for they see miracles everywhere.”
― Janet Rich Edwards

“The words and the notes weave a nest, complex and particular, twig and grass and feather, a home in the heart of the music, and she is held fast by their song. Oh, Mama, she thinks, this is the melody you sought.”
― Janet Rich Edwards

“I can read. I can write. I can begin a new tale.”
― Janet Rich Edwards, Canticle: A Novel