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I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.Heather Day Gilbert
2
If we are to survive, I must start and end my war this same day.Heather Day Gilbert
3
I am happy to be alone. Perhaps this is true. Or perhaps I am the biggest coward of all.Heather Day Gilbert
4
My dear husband Thomas has informed me that I can't walk without natural hip action. The more I slow to adjust my walk, the more my hips determine to swing of their own accord.Heather Day Gilbert
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I'm not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I'm a weak woman. He thinks wrong.Heather Day Gilbert
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Some are born to love, and some to fight. How can I ever succeed at both?Heather Day Gilbert
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What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.Heather Day Gilbert
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There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.Heather Day Gilbert
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Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared.Heather Day Gilbert
10
A married man is a preoccupied man.Heather Day Gilbert
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Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load.Heather Day Gilbert
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Judgment doesn’t always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.Heather Day Gilbert
13
When he leaned in to kiss me, the future swirled before me, bright as sunlight on creek water.Heather Day Gilbert
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An uncertain warrior is no warrior at all.Heather Day Gilbert