Amy Belding Brown > Quotes

“How strange that venturing away from accepted wisdom was the very path by which she found herself”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow

“Mam once told me the name Margaret means pearl. She said a pearl’s the only jewel that needs no cutting or polishing. Comes perfect from the hand of God Himself. And I ought to be treasuring myself like one.”
― Amy Belding Brown, Emily's House

“They do not want the truth. They want to hear details that will confirm their misconceptions, that will validate their fears.”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow

“in appearance and background”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow

“A captive may sing but still perish”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow

“Love goes where it will, and the attempt to redirect it actually corrupts it.”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow

“understand that trees and birds and clouds and animals have a significance of their own that is independent of human activity.”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow

“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,”
― Amy Belding Brown, Mr. Emerson's Wife: A Novel

“Words are like charms, she realizes. If said often enough, they will make it so”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow

“He said that God always weeps when men and women are cruel—to each other, to animals. To the earth itself. He said that Christ’s kingdom will only come when we learn to be deeply kind. He told me to remember that while we draw breath, there will always be some way we can show kindness.”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow

“There is much happiness to be found in acceptance”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow

“We have both bought our redemption at a terrible price. You had to forge a lie. I had to bring in the heads of innocent men. We have both sold our souls to gain acceptance in this new and terrible world”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow

“She whirls around and around in her red English stockings and white moccasins, her cloak of wampum and feathers flying out around her like the wings of a great hawk.”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow

“The life of woman must be outwardly a well-intentioned, cheerful dissimulation of her real life. —MARGARET FULLER”
― Amy Belding Brown, Mr. Emerson's Wife: A Novel

“Love was not something that fell on a person out of a clear sky, but a warm affection that slowly grew from years of sharing life’s toils.”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow

“Our soul, as bird, escapéd is out of the fowler’s snare: the snare asunder broken is; and we delivered are. —Psalm 124, Verse 7
The Bay Psalm Book,* 1640”
― Amy Belding Brown, Flight of the Sparrow