Heather Day Gilbert > Quotes

“I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, God's Daughter

“I'm not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I'm a weak woman. He thinks wrong.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, God's Daughter

“Torture is being married to a proud, insensitive man, while an attentive, supportive man lives under the same roof.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, God's Daughter

“I love the tactile experience of walking in the woods. It's muted browns, grays, and greens comfort me. The moss and leaves five softly under my boots. Large, scattered rocks feel permanent and unshakable. The pull of the mountain is like gravity for my soul.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Miranda Warning

“The pull of the mountain is like gravity for my soul.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Miranda Warning

“I couldn’t describe the smells of West Virginia, even if I tried. It has something to do with the leaves composting in the woods, the cold trickle of little creeks and waterfalls, the ferns greening up everything. But somewhere deep below, I can smell the rock and the coal this state is built on.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Miranda Warning

“Some are born to love, and some to fight. How can I ever succeed at both?”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Forest Child

“I forgive you."
The power of those words rushes through me, purging all the torturous memories of my youth. It gushes into all the cracks my mom's neglect and addictions have created, filling them with a mercy that's not my own.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Guilt by Association

“My homesickness is a tangible thing, like a cannon ball of sadness, just pushing into my heart.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Guilt by Association

“What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Forest Child

“Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, God's Daughter

“An uncertain warrior is no warrior at all.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Forest Child

“I am happy to be alone.
Perhaps this is true.
Or perhaps I am the biggest coward of all.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Forest Child

“But there will be no redemption for me. I will become the most unmerciful of murderers. I accept my fate.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Forest Child

“A married man is a preoccupied man.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, God's Daughter

“When he leaned in to kiss me, the future swirled before me, bright as sunlight on creek water.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Miranda Warning

“Real love was not easy. It was not floating on a cloud of happiness. Life and death, survival and failure, happiness and grief were woven together with the unbreakable cords of marriage.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, The Distant Tide

“Be careful with your heart. Real love is not so easily tossed aside.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, The Distant Tide

“If we are to survive, I must start and end my war this same day.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Forest Child

“Obviously she's the kind of woman who gives people the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to assume bad stuff first; correct it later.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Miranda Warning

“Freydis and Ref are in a world of their own, a world of love and pain, wrapped in marriage vows.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, God's Daughter

“Sometimes I feel so entangled with the West Virginia seasons, it's like I'm breathing through them.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Trial by Twelve

“The pale morning sun filters through the forest canopy around us. I imagine my dewy rosebush soaking it up, photosynthesizing like crazy. The coo of a mourning dove echoes, somehow soothing my heart. Sometimes I feel so entangled with the West Virginia seasons, it's like I'm breathing through them.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Trial by Twelve

“When we got married, I poured all my energy into turning myself into the wife he wanted. I never wore my hair up, because he'd commented that my ears were big. I let him answer questions when we had company, because he'd said I tended to ramble. I felt like a human-shaped shell, hollowing myself out for my husband so he could fill me with his own likes and desires.

I make a mental note to myself—find some real friends.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Queen of Hearts

“There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Trial by Twelve

“Judgment doesn’t always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Miranda Warning

“His long fingers bend, tightening into fists. I wanted him to be protective, but he’s about to go loco on a German who bears more than a passing resemblance to Dolph Lundgren in Rocky”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Miranda Warning

“But for the outcasts like me, the ones who don't fit the box, the only words that remind me I'm human are my own.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Queen of Hearts

“I'm pretty certain most women hate her guts. Luckily, I see past her perfect good looks and into her tangled personality.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Guilt by Association

“The heart will answer when it is called.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, The Distant Tide