Miranda Emmerson Quotes

“She became fascinated by the statue of Edith Cavell and would stand at the base of it in the freezing cold of a December morning, looking up: -Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone-. Sometimes those words made her cry. The tears would come uncontrollably and they would not stop. And in those moments Anna found forgiveness and it made her free. But they were only moments. Forgiveness is a hard thing to hang on to.”

“I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”

“1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.”

“I know now that patriotism is not enough I must have no hatred and bitterness toward anyone.”

“Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”

“(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)”

“Well done girl, I . . I admire your treachery.' Ecruba hissed at Edith.”

“...life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.”

“She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there.”

“It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man.His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger.”