12 Quotes by Sara Douglass

I had thought that my being would collapse when I gifted my soul', said Neville. 'Why is it then that I still breathe, and feel, and move?' 'Because,' said Mary, 'when you gift something wholly and completely and unhesitatingly it returns to you doublefold.

Tom . . . is Christ among us?' 'Yes.' Where? Why do I not see him? Why does he not come to me?' 'Because you did not love,' Neville said, hating the fact that he had to say it.

Who better to confess to than a dying woman?

They were both so young and both so sure that life would work out exactly as they hoped. Well, already plans and vows lay shattered across the floor. Could they not see that?

I had thought that my being would collapse when I gifted my soul’, said Neville. ‘Why is it then that I still breathe, and feel, and move?’ ‘Because,’ said Mary, ’when you gift something wholly and completely and unhesitatingly it returns to you doublefold.

There most always be hope. Fate always leaves a hope somewhere, and I intend to find it.

When we decide to see things one way we are often incapable of seeing them any other way.

She will be your death. She will be everyone’s death.” “She has failed most miserably at being ‘everyone’s death.’ She’s effectively harmless, Membricus.” “No woman is ever harmless!

There is a winter ahead such as I think we cannot imagine, but remember that spring always follows.