103 Quotes by Roseanna M. White

He does not ask everyone to give all they have. But if He does, are we willing? Truly willing? . . . Whatever He asks of us, whether it be a fortune or a pittance or our time or our devotion, we can be sure it will be painful. Cutting out what stands between us and God always is. But we can also trust that in the giving, we'll gain something far more precious.

Rowena had been just a normal girl back then. Running along with the dukes daughter on every merry chase. Huddling under makeshift forts when the rain drove them inside. Heads bowed together over books and papers on which they'd scratched treasure maps and poem and....Magic —that's what it had been

The morning air carried a chill in it that Libby hadn't anticipated, but one that made her smile even as she suppressed a shiver. Sunlight, soft as a kiss, shot the mist through with gold, encircling the island with a promise of another beautiful day.

He just wanted to get to know her better, from the inside out. He wanted the right to slide his fingers down her arm and weave them with hers. He wanted her here, at his side, indefinitely.Heaven help him. This was all Mamm-wynn's fault, putting ideas in his head.

She was worth waiting for. Worth seeking hour by hour, day by day, month by month. Year by year. Even if it took him a decade to convince her to be his, it would be worth it. And the wait would only make him appreciate her all the more.

We're all good. We're all bad. The hero in our own stories. The villain in someone else's.

Because it's by naming a thing, knowing a thing, that you come to understand it. Only when you see its unique traits can you truly appreciate what it is, and what it isn't.

But Batya used to say that the difference between a wise man and a fool was not that the wise man was right and the fool was wrong - but that the fool always assumed himself right, and the wise man would wonder if he could be wrong. We cannot learn from our mistakes and grow wiser if we never admit to the times we've chosen the wrong path.

This war was destroying her entire generation. Those it hadn't wiped out entirely it was trying to take apart piece by piece. And what could she do? Try to stitch the physical gashes back together, but that was only a stopgap.