30 Quotes by Tosca Lee

The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a world obsessed with conquest, our actions beyond bedchamber and hearth remembered only when we leave their obscurity. And so we become infamous because we were not invisible, the truth of our lives ephemeral as incense.

And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber.

There is beauty in the world still. Even now. And it’s worth saving for that reason alone.

Sometime before sleep it occurred to me that the true nature of being without might mean never knowing what one lacked.

The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar – and so very sad: What is this you have done?

The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men’s accounts that seem to survive a world obsessed with conquest, our actions beyond bedchamber and hearth remembered only when we leave their obscurity. And so we become infamous because we were not invisible, the truth of our lives ephemeral as incense.

How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart.

A weak man declares a woman a temptress and orders her to cover herself. A strong man covers himself and says nothing.

I felt laid bare, a fruit split open to reveal a moldering inside.