Status Updates From So Pure a Heart (Daughters ...

“If he is caught, he will be killed, and I would rather lose my own life alongside him than be doomed to live the remainder of my days without him!”

"If you can find the grace in your heart to forgive me as I have petitioned Providence in His mercy to do & to consent to be my wife, a thing which I have longed for since the day I first beheld your heavenly face, I would be your most humble servant the rest of my days & live every moment to bring a smile to your heart, a heart that I know & love even more than my own. My darling, I shall always be yours."

The strongest of all pressed hard against her teeth. I don’t want to be without you.
“I will make sure you are not alone, Hannah, I will be sure you are safe.”

“I did my best not to look at you too often. I—” The moment the confession left her mouth, her eyes went wide and her face almost blotchy from embarrassment. Had she meant she wanted to look at him more than she did?

The pain in his side had only now begun to wail, and even still it was more a faraway cry, for he could not think of himself before her.

"Sure to keep his tone rich, and volume low, he moved his mouth beside her ear. “I shall be back.” Snatching a cake from in front of her, he whirled away, his body humming with pride at the way she’d melted a little as she’d gasped a tiny breath."

“You were everything to me.”
crying on the floor of my class 🥺🥹
(jk, even if I was, there's only like 6 people here)

“When he lost you, he lost the light in his eyes, the truth in his smile.”

“I would do it a thousand times over if I knew it would keep you from suffering.”
This is why Joseph is my favorite❤

“If there were anything to be questioned, I assure you I would have detected it.” -Major Stockton before allowing a spy to write all his CONFIDENTIAL letters regarding the war

“I am surprised you haven’t a wife. Are there not a crowd of woman pining for your hand?”
“Nay indeed, madam, though I may have one in mind.”
awwwww🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Almost as if his body obeyed a command his mind hadn’t authorized, he tugged her harder against him, speaking low in her ear.

Sure to keep his tone rich, and volume low, he moved his mouth beside her ear. “I shall be back.”
🥹

He wanted to slay every other man who touched her and in the same second scold her reckless foolishness.🥺

“My name is Major Stockton.”
screw you

“Had you any remorse, any showing of caring for her, I would in an instant seek ways to help mend what should be between father and daughter. But until then, I will strive only for her well-being. And you are no part of that.”
slay