from The Dovekeepers that were beautiful in their descriptions to me:
- "Let my burden be your burden, and yours be mine. "
- "My father had been an assassin for so long that the men he had killed were like leaves on a willow tree, too many to count."
- "There are worms that spend their life times spinning such threads, and now you refuse to honor their destines?" (Comment made on the gift of a blue scarf to an unwilling receiver.)
- "The days piled up like twigs, bent and useless."
- "No one wanted to think about Masada without a leader, a body without a spirit."
- "If we lost our faith, we would become like the clouds that swell across the western sky when the wind pushes them into the desert, promising rain but empty inside."
- "She should have treated him as a mere stone i her sandal - instead she treated him like a man."
- "She ran so fast that her shadow was left behind."
- "The bursts of yellow iris made it appear as though sunlight had spilled across the land as a blessing."
- "An assassin who could be seen as a murderer or a hero depending on who you were and where fate had placed you."
- "I was not certain that our lives were so similar to thread, able to be unspooled, then gathered up again."
- "I had heard it said that Malachi wrote so beautifully the angels came to watch, for words were the first thing God created out of silence and were still the most beautiful of all His creations."
- "The river runs every shade of blue that has ever been known to humankind: ink and turquoise and lapis, indigo, teal, cerulean and ultramarine.
- "The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire."
- "I thought of the the slave from the north and prayed that his amulet had done as well for him so that he had found his way back to the land where the snow lasted most of the year, where stags that were as swift as the leopard ran across grasslands, where he could be free."
- Join us for The Dovekeepers book discussion this Thursday, April 5 at 10 AM at CIDL