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    Ellen O'Connell
    “...he wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and then gave her to an ordinary man. Maybe they did such a thing once in a while, knowing an ordinary man would treasure her more, love her better. Maybe they even let him keep her - for a while.”
    ― Ellen O'Connell, Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
    tags: cord-bennett
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    Ellen O'Connell
    “He shook her gently. "Listen to me, listen, there's nothing anybody could do to you that would make me not want you - no hurt, no scar, nothing. These past days I've been afraid they broke you, ruined all the fire. I'd mourn, Annie - I don't want you different - but I'd still want you. I love you.”
    ― Ellen O'Connell, Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
    tags: love
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    Ellen O'Connell
    “Annie, last year.... That day in the yard.... I made a mistake not strapping on a gun the minute I found you, and it wasn't that I was against marrying you, it was that I was against letting them make me do anything. So they almost killed Foxface and threatened to shoot the horses, and I gave in. But they could have shot everything in five miles to pieces and couldn't have made me crawl."

    A tremor passed through her, but he continued. "That was last year. Now if somebody pointed a gun at you, really could hurt you, I'd crawl on my belly or my knees or do anything else. Maybe that's part of why loving is frightening. I'd rather pay the price and have you than be invincible because I have nothing.”
    ― Ellen O'Connell, Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
    tags: love
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    Ellen O'Connell
    “Maybe occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and gave her to an ordinary man. Maybe they did such a thing once in a while, knowing an ordinary man would treasure her more, love her better.”
    ― Ellen O'Connell, Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
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    Ellen O'Connell
    “She was out of a cage and finding her wings. No one would cage her again, and he admired her courage and determination. As”
    ― Ellen O'Connell, Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
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    Ellen O'Connell
    “You know, Annie, a long time ago an old man told me beauty doesn’t mean much in a woman. It disappears with age. But he said some women have something better. They have a special glow that lasts all their life and just gets richer. You’re like that. You really shine.”
    ― Ellen O'Connell, Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
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    Ellen O'Connell
    “You know, Annie, a long time ago an old man told me beauty doesn't mean much in a woman. It disappears with age. But he said some women have something better. They have a special glow that lasts all their life and just gets richer. You're like that. You really shine.”
    ― Ellen O'Connell, Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
    tags: cord-bennett
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    Ellen O'Connell
    “Her hands cupped his face, thumbs caressing his cheekbones. "I love you, Mr. Bennett."

    "Good thing. Hate to be the only one afflicted.”
    ― Ellen O'Connell, Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
    tags: humor, love
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    Ellen O'Connell
    “Cord softened his voice as he addressed Anne. "Thought I'd see if you want to come home with me, babe."

    She crossed the room in two leaps and threw herself at him. Cord kept the rifle trained on Wells, but he caught Anne with his left arm and crushed her to him. He buried his mouth and nose in her hair and breathed deeply of her.

    Until this moment there had been no room for any emotion but fear in Cord. Now, with Anne safe in his arms, rage seared through him. If they did not get out of here quickly, he would leave the room drenched in blood.”
    ― Ellen O'Connell, Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
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    Ellen O'Connell
    “Only a very few women ever looked the way Anne looked now, and they had to be loved to achieve it - to be loved and to know they were loved.”
    ― Ellen O'Connell, Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
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    Jennifer Elisabeth
    “I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”
    ― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
    tags: anxiety, art, beach, born-ready, cape-cod, coming-of-age, constellations, depression, destiny, fate, friends, girls, growing, growing-up, healing, hope, inspiration, jennifer-elisabeth, learning, life, love, lovers, ocean, pray, prayer, red-thread, red-thread-of-destiny, red-thread-of-fate, self-acceptance, self-love, self-reflection, soul, soul-mates, stars, teenagers, teens, time, universe, wish
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    “Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.


    PART SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: animal, bad, black, cosmic, cosmos, darkness, darks, dualities, dust, earth, evil, fire, galaxy, good, light, lights, man, mimic, moon, ocean, planets, polarities, salt, sea, solar-system, space, sun, suzy-kassem, swimming, universal, universe, white, wind, woman
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    Melody Lee
    “Wildflowers can't be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.”
    ― Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
    tags: free, moon-gypsy-book, ocean, poetry, sky, soul, wild, wildflowers
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: anger, grief, hopelessness, loss, rage, realization, understanding
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