Quotes from book

The Dovekeepers

“We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.”

“Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.”

“What men yearn for they often destroy.”

“You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.”

“I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.”

“Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.”

“Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?”

“I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.”