A Song Unheard Quotes

“Our faith is the rock we stand on, Willa--but we don't demand anyone else stand here with us. Though if ever you wanted to, there is plenty of room.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Song Unheard

“I like being a thief.'

'And he liked being a rake - but there always comes a time for change, oui?' She stood and dusted off the back of her skirt. 'When you are ready, Jesus will forgive you. As He did Lukas.
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Why did her life keep filling up with all these people who wanted to talk about Jesus? Willa shook her head. 'Why would I want Him to do that?'

'Because' - Margot smiled as if it were all as simple as two plus two - 'that is when He can start piecing us back together.'

Willa's breath caught as the girl returned to her spot. Caught and knotted and made her eyes burn.

She turned back to the slivers of light and bit her lip until the tears marched away.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Song Unheard

“Yes, he had been every bit as handsome as his posters indicated when she saw him on the street yesterday. And a great deal more—more moody, more intense, more … dangerous.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Song Unheard

“Her cheeks flushed such a becoming shade of pink that Lukas decided then and there that he would have to elicit blushes as often as he could.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Song Unheard

“It wasn’t fair. Not even a little. This was her language, her greatest love—music, dazzling in its brilliance
So how could these people manage to take what she knew by instinct, from that place deep inside her, and make it confusing?”
― Roseanna M. White, A Song Unheard

“Did man’s actions grieve the Lord so in heaven? Did He ache for them, even as they tore themselves apart?”
― Roseanna M. White, A Song Unheard

“I have. Not often, mind you - didn't dare. An urchin going before the King, as it were. But when I prayed, He answered - He brought me to Pauly, to you and Rosie and the others. And it's made me think. Peter said something before he left about God calling us, drawing us while we're still sinners. And I wonder ... I wonder if that's what He's been doing all along. Calling us to Him. To His work. If maybe that's what He's doing now, providing us a way out of the life we made for ourselves.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Song Unheard

“Jules muttered in that way of his. The one that had absolutely no discernable words in any given language, but a rather close resemblance to many in several that would have earned him a tongue-lashing from his mother.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Song Unheard