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

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

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 — Eowyn Ivey

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

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

remembered but not quite. I only hope by some — Eowyn Ivey

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

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? — Eowyn Ivey

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

A boy trying out a man's language. — Eowyn Ivey

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

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. — Eowyn Ivey

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

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. — Eowyn Ivey

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

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

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. — Eowyn Ivey

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

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. — Eowyn Ivey

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

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

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

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

The leaden sky seemed to hold its breath. — Eowyn Ivey

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

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

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. — Eowyn Ivey

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

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

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

He expected to drown before she reached it. — Eowyn Ivey

...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 — Eowyn Ivey

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

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. — Eowyn Ivey

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