Kate

“They would survive the devastation of this war, somehow. The scarred men, the abused women, the torn-apart land. They would all go on. All rebuild. All find new life.
New life that might cover those scars but which couldn't obliterate them completely. She knew that too. They'd become part of the earth. Part of the people. Part of the story they'd all tell. The yesterday whose tides would carve tomorrow.”
― Roseanna M. White, Yesterday's Tides

“They’d become part of the earth. Part of the people. Part of the story they’d all tell. The yesterday whose tides would carve tomorrow.”
― Roseanna M. White, Yesterday's Tides

“She'd lived a lot of years on this tiny little island, a dot in the Atlantic. Home to pirates, home to ships' captains, home to innkeepers and fishermen and Coasties. Home to generations of stubborn people determined to stand, though the sands may shift. To thrive, though the waters may rise. To go on living, though the storms may rage.”
― Roseanna M. White, Yesterday's Tides

“Stories had painted the backdrop of her world as a child, more than she had ever known. Stories had brought to life all the people who mattered to her, Stories had been reality in her family.”
― Roseanna M. White, Yesterday's Tides