17 Quotes by Elizabeth Cunningham


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    …these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity

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    How things appear is only the thin, papery outer skin of the onion. Of course, when you cut open the onion, your eyes will sting and water, and then you can't see at all. You're lucky if you don't slice your finger.

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    And sometimes men fail, I answered silently. Sometimes they don't forgive. Sometimes what you see is only the bright surface of something cold and deep.

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    I've outgrown my childhood name, and I haven't found a new one yet.""Ah," she cried. "Then it will be my pleasure to name you for myself. I can tell you are a colleen after my own heart, more like to me than my own daughter Findbhair. So I bestow on you the brave name of Maeve until such a time as another name shall claim you.

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    If you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless.

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    So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless.

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