“If we are to survive, I must start and end my war this same day.”
Heather Day Gilbert, Forest Child“When he leaned in to kiss me, the future swirled before me, bright as sunlight on creek water.”
Heather Day Gilbert, Miranda Warning“Judgment doesn’t always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.”
Heather Day Gilbert, Miranda Warning“Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load.”
Heather Day Gilbert, God's Daughter“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, Trial by Twelve“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, Miranda Warning“What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.”
Heather Day Gilbert, Forest Child“Some are born to love, and some to fight. How can I ever succeed at both?”
Heather Day Gilbert, Forest Child