30 Quotes by Tosca Lee

I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary.

Not yet,” he wailed, as raw as the earth. “But you lay as though already dead, and I cannot go on without you. Do not leave me; do not die!” And I felt a grief from him to melt the mountain ice. Grief to drown in. Grief to both rend my heart and mend it at once.

I had sought love. I had talked of love, not knowing that it is one step beyond wisdom into the face of God. And this was the only salvation.

In the beginning there was God... but for me there was Adam.

So like the womb. Like that moment before birth where there is no awareness of wrong or evil or pain or hope or anything but that still voice that whispers merely: I am.

I slept in the grip of that love, comforted, thinking I should forget my longing within it, knowing that all was somehow well... In the morning when I stirred, I knew... I knew I lay here in my own flesh, but not alone.

I wanted to be alone with the One. The One who scaled then careened from the heights of the Mount. The One who raised up the man from the mud. The One who fashioned me from a part of the man and knew me more intimately than even the adam.

In that instant I knew that as bad as it was, it was going to get much worse.

You are necessary to that end, and to me... you are all I have of the garden. You are the image of me and of the One. And if you have wronged, then I have surely repaid your wrong twice over.