Victoria Wilcox > Quotes

“War's a funny thing. Some men go off and come home again just fine. But there's some that come home and never do come back.”
― Victoria Wilcox, Inheritance

“The trains roared in on iron rails, bringing people from places he had never seen, taking them away to places he had only heard about. To him, the railroad was a romance and an adventure, and now it would be his turn to travel off into the unknown.”
― Victoria Wilcox , Inheritance

“There were days when his adventurous streak got the better of him and made him throw caution to the wind and commit some ungentlemanly act or another. Then Alice Jane would reprimand him and call him to repentance, her sweet voice tinged with the suffering of a loving parent: "John Henry, dearest, I am so very disappointed.”
― Victoria Wilcox, Inheritance

“All the rantings in the world couldn't put the fear of the Lord into him like a few gentle words from his mother.”
― Victoria Wilcox, Inheritance

“But as they stared into "The Star Spangled Banner," the music was blessedly drowned out by the squeal and moan of the barking train, iron on iron, a truer anthem of America.”
― Victoria Wilcox, Inheritance

“And in the cool evenings after his mother had gone to bed, he learned to play a friendly game of cards, bluffing without blinking, and besting his father so many times that Henry said he was glad he hadn't taught the boy to wager so well. Those were happy times for John Henry, with his father's time and attention, the sun on his skin, the wind in his face, and a wild new world to explore.”
― Victoria Wilcox, Inheritance

“The little girl he loved was gone and in her place stood a stranger with Mattie's eyes and a woman's body, her long auburn hair pulled up from her neck, her small shoulders squared against the world...She didn't see the blush rise up in his face when he spoke his name. She didn't hear his young voice crack when he stammered an answer to her questions. And she didn't know that, for the first time in his life, John Henry Holliday was falling in love.”
― Victoria Wilcox , Inheritance