82 Quotes by Connilyn Cossette

There was just me and the One who created me, and it was enough.

Just how many nameless, faceless friends had I been protected by without knowing it?

We have many more years together on our mountain, Lukio," she'd said. "So bring yourself back to me, unscathed.

I may not be the champion of Ashdod anymore, but I would not go down without a fight.

Long ago he'd chosen me as his son, offered me a home and love and protection just like one of his children, but today I chose him as a father. It did not matter that Philistine blood ran in my veins. I was now and for always his child.

I sank into the water until every part of me was submerged, and then rose again. I stretched my palms upward as I did so, asking that Yahweh would take the hands that had done so much damage and consecrate them, vowing that never again would they be lifted in anger or violence, only in defense of those who could not defend themselves.

They disregarded the Torah — either willfully, or because the knowledge of the laws regarding handling of the Ark was not properly taught generations to generation. They suffered the consequences for such disobedience. The Philistines are not beholden to our laws. They have no such sacred responsibility. However, they still were cursed because of their foolish boast that they’d been victorious over Yahweh — a notion that the pharaoh in Mosheh’s day learned by suffering his own plagues.

I had no idea what lay before us on this dark road, but I would not waste Azuvah’s sacrifice.

The indulgent mixture of fragrances beckoned me forward, drawing me into the lush forest of blooms, vines, and greens like the crook of a lover’s finger.