21 Quotes by Donna Woolfolk Cross

There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

Some ideas are dangerous.

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

But she had known, better than anyone else, what demons he had faced, had known how hard he had fought to free himself from them. That he had lost the fight in the end made the struggle no less honorable.

It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.