6 Quotes by Robyn Cadwallader

But this was different, as if some creature had risen from a corner of my cell and taken over every part of me. It swallowed meaning. I hadn't thought suffering would be like this, so ordinary, so dull, and so endless.

Anger, while it lasts, so blinds the heart that it is unable to discern the truth. It is a kind of enchanter, which can transform human nature. Anger is a shape-shifter, as stories tell us, for it strips people of their reason and totally changes their appearance, and transforms them from a human into the likeness of a beast.

But this was different, as if some creature had risen from a corner of my cell and taken over every part of me. It swallowed meaning. I hadn’t thought suffering would be like this, so ordinary, so dull, and so endless.

We all need stories, don’t we?’ He’d looked up at Ranaulf. ‘For our hearts, I think.

A few words from me won’t touch your grief, and nor should they. Tend your grief like hard ground, and wait. One day, something will grow; there won’t be an answer, but you will see you’ve found a way to live, and to live with death.

Disturbance only comes into the heart from something that has been seen or heard, tasted or smelled, and felt outwardly.