Dalene Matthee Quotes

But memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all.

unhappiness was something you got used to or something that passed.

To hear, after nine years, that they had found a child that might be yours, was not news that you could take lightly. And if it was the child they had found, only the Lord in Heaven could know how he had got over the mountain to the Long Kloof.

...What was there to wish for... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible.

Get your hands to work, Selling, none of us can understand it.

God forgives many things, but God never forgives us the wrong we do to a child.

An ostrich took a mate for life. It was their nature. Why try and mess up nature? Was the new prosperity not enough for them? …Where would it end?

What is it that is troubling you? You’re young, but your eyes are old.