“Books had always been her solace; novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her own imagination.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“Poverty was a soul-crushing thing. A cave that tightened around you, its pinprick of light closing a little more at the end of each desperate, unchanged day.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“There was a pain that came with constant disapproval; a sense of having lost something unnamed, unknown. Elsa had survived it by being quiet, by not demanding or seeking attention, by accepting that she was loved, but unliked.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“Heartache had been a part of her life so long it had become as familiar as the color of her hair or the slight curve in her spine. Sometimes it was the lens through which she viewed her world and sometimes it was the blindfold she wore so she didn't see. But it was always there. (p117)”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
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