“Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there werre worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had an opinion. And a pulse, he added, the alternative to which was dire! He said a girl like Eleanor would do well to keep the coals of her impudence warm, for society would seek to cool them soon enough.”
― The Lake House
― The Lake House
“And then he'd looked directly at her and briefly she'd seen something in his eyes, a shadow in the shape of Howard and all the others like him, and then it was gone, and he smiled and he was Anthony her Anthony, home again at last.”
― The Lake House
― The Lake House
“I think Kitchimanidoo is not the Creator but the possibility of creation, all creation, good and bad.”
― Northwest Angle
― Northwest Angle
“She wondered sometimes how he stood the constant criticism. "Love," Mr. Llewellyn had said when she ventured as much to him. "We do not always have a choice in where and how and whom, and love gives us the courage to withstand that which we never thought we could.”
― The Lake House
― The Lake House
“She hung up and the room was a fist of silence.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace
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