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He goes not in search of obstacles, only the paths around them. Anything seems possible.

She stared that color, trying to imagine a father who could name his child for such beauty and then abandon her.

No. Sometimes these things happen. Life doesn't go the way we plan or hope, but we don't have to be so angry, do we?" He

All those sounds of her failure and regret would be left behind, and in their place there would be silence.

If she couldn't convince anyone else, how could she go on believing?

remembered but not quite. I only hope by some

Carry me on and on to the edge of the earth, with children's laughter like a wind - full sail, then carry me beyond

Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?

Now he sat laughing with strangers, when he hadn't smiled at her in years.

A boy trying out a man's language.

The December days had a certain luminosity and sparkle, like frost on bare branches, alight in the morning just before it melts. Mabel

There is hope in our wanting to be something better, even if we never manage it. Maybe that is what I can hold to. The wanting.

I'll tell you one thing about history - we leave a lot of carnage in our wake.

She slid her boot soles onto the surface and nearly laughed at her own absurdity - to be careful not to slip even as she prayed to fall through.

We are allowed to do that, are we not Mabel? To invent our own endings and choose joy over sorrow?

Like a rainbow trout in a stream, the girl sometimes flashed her true self to him.

Doubt crouched over his shoulder, ready to take him by the throat, whispering in his ear, You are an old man. An old, old man.

You start seeing things that you're afraid of ... or things you've always wished for.

He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here.

She knew the snow and it carried her gently ... She knew the land by heart.

She seemed to him both powerful and delicate, like a wild thing that thrives in its place but withers when stolen away.

She might be curt and ungrateful, but by God she could bake.

She watched Mabel mix bread dough, and it was as if a songbird had landed on a bedroom windowsill.

The leaden sky seemed to hold its breath.

Why was it always the woman's fate to pace and fret and wait?

She wanted to look presentable, but not like an overdressed outsider.

The child's arms around her, hugging her as a daughter hugs her mother. Joyfully. Spontaneously. The most beautiful of all. The most beautiful of all.

I guess maybe I don't want to be warm and safe. I want to live.

When she first fell in love with Jack, she dreamed she could fly ...

You'll drive yourself crazy looking for something that's not there.

He expected to drown before she reached it.

...this rubbed like a small pebble in a boot. At first it seems like nothing but a nuisance, but eventually it hobbles you.
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I have only ever been truly frightened of boredom and loneliness," she says. It

He put one foot in front of the other and walked without seeing or feeling.

It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her.

She and Jack had formed her of snow and birch boughs and frosty wild grass.