Blue North

“Could she really do it? Could she really go all that way by herself? Yes, she whispered, of course you can do it: you’re thirty-eight years old and you’re not going to the moon, just to Baghdad. The word sounded the way a shiver felt. At the dinner party in London it had been a shiver of excitement, but now it held a frisson of dread.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express

“Rand studied him and then nodded as if he understood. “Preacher was a force to be reckoned with, but there comes a time when who we were no longer fits who we’ve become.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Night Hawk: A Blistering African American Romance – Old West Bounty Hunter and High-Stakes Love Story

“Someday your child will be full of wants. What they'll want more than anything, whether they know it or not, is for you to cherish them.”
― Peter Geye, The Lighthouse Road

“For the train, like life, must go on until it reaches its destination. You might not always like what you see out of the window, but if you pull down the blind, you will miss the beauty as well as the ugliness.”
― Lindsay Jayne Ashford, The Woman on the Orient Express