27 Quotes by Heather Day Gilbert

Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load.

Real love was not easy. It was not floating on a cloud of happiness. Life and death, survival and failure, happiness and grief were woven together with the unbreakable cords of marriage.

I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.

I forgive you."The power of those words rushes through me, purging all the torturous memories of my youth. It gushes into all the cracks my mom's neglect and addictions have created, filling them with a mercy that's not my own.

I've definitely set some wheels in motion. The only question is if I can keep them moving on the right course, or if they'll wind up crushing me.

Judgment doesn’t always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.

I am happy to be alone. Perhaps this is true. Or perhaps I am the biggest coward of all.

My homesickness is a tangible thing, like a cannon ball of sadness, just pushing into my heart.

There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.