Margaret Lawrence > Quotes

“They say, he whispers, his lips making the word-shapes on her shoulder, there is a river that heals all wounds. It is pure white, like snow or the blossoms of prarie-cotton. You are my white river. If I die, I will come back to wash my heart in you.”
― Margaret Lawrence, The Iceweaver

“Every civilization built upon riches has died stillborn, ebbed away or fallen of its own weight. Once the inner eye glimpses wealth, the individual life is no longer of interest. The personal on every level becomes insignificant. Wives are abandoned, children discarded. Expendability rules. Gold erases the past, you see. It erases the mercy of God.”
― Margaret Lawrence

“The trees in the forest bent low when they heard him, and the wolves and the foxes wept tears.”
― Margaret Lawrence, The Burning Bride