Heather Day Gilbert Quotes

Marriage was like a stale brownie - started crumbling apart the minute we got hitched.

Obviously she's the kind of woman who gives people the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to assume bad stuff first; correct it later.

Sometimes I feel so entangled with the West Virginia seasons, it's like I'm breathing through them.

Freydis and Ref are in a world of their own, a world of love and pain, wrapped in marriage vows.

A married man is a preoccupied man.

What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.

Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load.

I hadn't thought of it before, but the Good Doctor is very much like water, fitting in wherever he needs to. Ever-present, but never obtrusive. Calming, comforting, yet inescapable.

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.

Some are born to love, and some to fight. How can I ever succeed at both?

If we are to survive, I must start and end my war this same day.

But there will be no redemption for me. I will become the most unmerciful of murderers. I accept my fate.

My dear husband Thomas has informed me that I can't walk without natural hip action. The more I slow to adjust my walk, the more my hips determine to swing of their own accord.

Judgment doesn't always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.

My homesickness is a tangible thing, like a cannon ball of sadness, just pushing into my heart.

I'm not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I'm a weak woman. He thinks wrong.

I am happy to be alone.
Perhaps this is true.
Or perhaps I am the biggest coward of all.