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“All shall be well, child.”
I reared up then. “Will it? You cannot know that! How can you know that?”
“Oh, Ana, Ana. When I tell you all shall be well, I don’t mean that life won’t bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what.”
“If Antipas kills my husband as he did John, I cannot imagine I will be well.”
“If Antipas kills him, you’ll be devastated and grief-stricken, but there’s a place in you that is inviolate—it’s the surest part of you, a piece of Sophia herself. You’ll find your way there, when you need to. And you’ll know then what I speak of.”
― The Book of Longings
I reared up then. “Will it? You cannot know that! How can you know that?”
“Oh, Ana, Ana. When I tell you all shall be well, I don’t mean that life won’t bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what.”
“If Antipas kills my husband as he did John, I cannot imagine I will be well.”
“If Antipas kills him, you’ll be devastated and grief-stricken, but there’s a place in you that is inviolate—it’s the surest part of you, a piece of Sophia herself. You’ll find your way there, when you need to. And you’ll know then what I speak of.”
― The Book of Longings
“Ana, I don't doubt you should give yourself to motherhood. I only question what it is you're meant to mother.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“When I was finally able to read the Scriptures for myself, I discovered (behold!) there were women.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
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