“I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!”

How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.

What concerns this dress is a small thing – less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world.

[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.

Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

… since God commanded me to go, I must do it.

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.

Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don’t have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards.

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Every actor has three versions of each scene – the one that you rehearse the night before, in your bedroom.

The one you actually get to do when you’re filming, and then the one you wish you would have done, afterward.

If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.