5 Quotes & Sayings By Rosalind Miles

Rosalind Miles is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Man Who Loved Children, The Ice Limit, and The Diana Conspiracy . Her award-winning nonfiction work, The Snow Child , was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of two books on the life of her grandfather, the renowned writer Eudora Welty. Her most recent book, "Shiloh" (Little, Brown), is an historical novel about Shiloh, Tennessee during the Civil War.

True lovers may never know what love means. A man...
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True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it. Rosalind Miles
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To face a man in combat is challenge enough. To find the goddess in a woman is the life work of a man. Hard though the first may be, the second is the harder longer road. But every man seeks the woman of the dream, and only the best of men finds what he seeks. Rosalind Miles
No other woman had that air of spring in January,...
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No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope. Rosalind Miles
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She loved your mother', Taliesin said gently. 'This is her farewell.' As he spoke, a chanted melody began inside the chamber, a song without words. Yet it spoke of the beauty in the heart of the flame, of the passing glory of the white bird on the wing, and the blossom of the sea spray under the shining prow. It sang of a mother with her baby, of the hard love between men and women, and the gentle rest that comes at last to all. . Rosalind Miles