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I'm not the center of the universe. I'm more like their gravity. Right now I've got them locked down tight, their feet on the ground, their path obvious. It's my job to keep them there, close to everything that keeps them safe. But as they get bigger, I get to loosen up just a little, stop tugging so hard. Eventually, I'll get to set them free to fly, and I'll only reel them in when they ask, or when they need it.

But it's more than that. It's him knowing me. Knowing I don't want roses. Or diamonds. I want this. Adventures. With him

Every laboring woman suspectsthat she is in fact moments away from death. A woman is never more vulnerable than while in labor nor is she ever stronger. Like a wounded animal cornered and desperate she spends her travail alternately curled in upon herself or lashing out. It ought to kill a woman, this process of having her body turned inside out. By rights, no one should survive such a thing. Yet miraculously they do

Kate's mom is a saint.

The way Kate's mom handled her coming home with her makeup and hair done without asking permission🥹👏

"You'll make her happy, I know you can, and when you talk of me, you tell her not of this, but of me riding out on Charley, in the mountains, doing what I loved to do."

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Also I was today years old when I learned the word "smut" has been used since the 1660s😅

"Margery experienced a brief moment of pure love for the people she had grown up alongside, those who would not see a man-- or a mule-- struggle alone."

"Alice had discovered how, for a woman at least, it was much easier to feel anger on behalf of someone you cared about, to access that cold burn, to want to make someone suffer if they had hurt someone you loved."

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. -Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance."

Loved the way the towns people came together for Kathleen and how Alice felt welcomed and at home with all of them. So many different characters in this book that pull at my heart strings. Even thankful for Bennett finally speaking up to his father even tho it seems he's still a dud of a husband.

She pointed toward the mountains that loomed in the distance. "That's what I dreamed of as a child. Me and Charley, up there, thats my heaven, Alice. I get to live my heaven every day."

Can't put it down!

Ooh love a book that hooks me right away!

"It is a privilege to grow old. We are lucky to be here"

Life is a seesaw, and Im standing dead center, still and balanced: living kids on one side, living parents on the other. Nicky here with me at the fulcrum. Dont move a muscle, I think. But I will, of course. You have to.

"It is a privilege to grow old. We are lucky to be here."

"You're so damaged by age, but so beautiful too"

I am so over this book. The next 200 pages better be good. Its just so unnecessarily long and the twists dont even make sense sometimes. Bored as fuck

What did Ruhn see?!?!