“Tears glinted in her eyes. "I want no secrets between us, Silas."
"No secrets," he echoed, his mouth near the gentle curve of her ear. "Then you should know I can hardly breathe for thinking of you. You're the most maddening lass I've ever known, and every day without you near is an agony to me." Taking her face between his hands, he moved to kiss her, but the sound of approaching horses gave him pause.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“That she was thirsty for heavenly things, there could be no doubt.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“I'd rather wear out than rust out," he'd once said years before, echoing the words of the evangelist George Whitefield.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen. Samuel Johnson”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Gardening is the purest human pleasure. Francis Bacon”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“His fiddle weeps, she thought, yet it wooed her with its sweetness, warm as a lover’s touch.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“She’d already memorized the short Psalm and was hungry for more. Indeed, each word seemed woven into her soul the way the weaver wove his wares, taking the barest threads of her faith and making something beautiful and enduring as fine cloth deep inside her.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul. Benjamin Franklin”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Christ's kingdom has no frontier, ye ken.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Haste and panic were poor traveling companions, and this trip he'd reaped the consequences in spades.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Distance lends enchantment to the view. English proverb”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Are there any churches in the wilderness?” “Aye, the one I’ll build you.” His gaze held hers thoughtfully. “Christ’s kingdom has no frontier, ye ken.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning
“Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating those they think rank below. I’ve read that this is why poor whites in the United States are the group most hostile to blacks.”
― Paul Graham, quote from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
“In August of 1998, I completed Seize the Night, the sequel to my novel Fear Nothing, one of many of my books in which a dog is among the cast of principal characters. Every time I wrote a story that included a canine, my yearning for a dog grew. Readers and critics alike said I had an uncanny knack for writing convincingly about dogs and even for writing from a dog's point of view. When a story contained a canine character, I always felt especially inspired, as if some angel watching over me was trying to tell me that dogs were a fundamental part of my destiny if only I would listen.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
“Places, like people, have their beginnings and have also their endings.”
― Walter Van Tilburg Clark, quote from The City Of Trembling Leaves
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
― D.H. Lawrence, quote from The Complete Poems (Poetry Library)
“Like sometimes when you go to a movie and you get so lost in the story that when you’re walking out of the theater you can’t remember anything at all about your own life.”
― Pam Houston, quote from Waltzing the Cat
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