52 Quotes by Catherine M. Wilson

Let us take care not to yield to evil's power, because evil has no power but what we give it.

The more I thought about it, the more I believed that it was impossible not to hope, and few things could be more painful than to hope for love only to be constantly disappointed.

It would be a long time before I understood that fear is only the dark face of love.

Hatred can be just as blind as love

Your feelings tell you many things about the world,” she said, “but people seldom listen to what their feelings tell them. It’s much more satisfying to indulge one’s feelings than to learn from them.

I wanted her to give me the gift of her past, so that I would no longer be shut out from any part of her life.

In my mind I compared Elen and Vintel. Next to Elen, Vintel appeared to be no more than a simpleminded blunderer, yet the grief she had caused, the harm she'd done, we as hideous as Elen's wicked deeds. Perhaps stupidity is as dangerous as evil.

Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.

For the first time I understood something my grandmother told me years before, that it's not our deeds that hurt us, but what they make us believe about ourselves.