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"How can you keep mistaking me for someone who cares?"

"It was all the tragic beauty of a sky where every single star was falling."

"He held onto her as if she were a grudge."

"He looked at her the way that Evangeline imagined portraits stared at people when their backs were turned. No more magnetic smiles. No smoldering brown eyes. It was the gazing equivalent to pulling out a knife and tilting it so it caught the light."

"Do you know, you're the only woman I've ever met who won't be led into my games. You break all my rules by simply refusing to play."

"The silence stretched out then, because the weight of all the years we'd spent together crept into the room like a third person."

"Susa recalled how her mother used to say making pottery was like raising children. The pottery never truly knew what awaited at the end of all her efforts."

That rush of joy at knowing Mama had known me and understood the wild, free side of her daughter. Of course she had understood, for she had the same stubbornness, the same lust for adventure, the same determination to take life in large gulps of fresh air.

"He released me from our promise, from our bond, but how do you released your heart?"

"This is what love did to you. Made you vulnerable because the person you loved had enough of your heart to break it."

"Who am I that You would speak to me?" Peniel thought.
The voice answered, "It isn't who you are. It's who I AM."

He touched her face. "They put out my eyes, but I see you still."

"It occurs to me that what I feel, watching them, is a sense of betrayal. I carried these children into the world, paid their entrance fee with dues rendered upon my own body, and now they no longer need me."

"However much you want to protect your heart, it's already to late, isn't it?"

"The Lord has not forsaken us. Never doubt in the darkness what God has given us in the light."

"He reminded me of a large cat. Not the domestic kind, all fat and bothered by the world, but rather a jungle cat. Sleek and purring and...dangerous."

"Nothing dare come between me and my love for Christ."

"Being with Daniela isn't like being home. It defines home."

A cast of a dozen characters with constantly changing perspectives (with no name to show the who you're switching to) has my head spinning. 💫

"I am a prisoner of time, and no choice I make will be good enough for the people I love."

"Sometimes the best way to heal is to help others."

Andrew has a heart of gold. 😭 "He was a healer and was starting to heal my heart, whether he realized it or not."

"It's not our bad days or our hormones that are the real hang-ups, but instead our inability to be anything but mediocre without Christ."

"The pain will come regardless, and at this point I expect to feel it immensely. Besides, I doubt a mere kiss can add that much more hurt."

He lowered his face, leaning his forehead against mine. "Perhaps your expectations are too low."

The narrator in this audio book cracks me up 😂 She portrays a woman pretending to be an impertinent spoiled heiress in hopes of getting the arranged marriage retracted. Such wit and flamboyant insolence!

"I'm on a suicide mission...I must have known all this when I volunteered. But to my amnesia-riddled brain this is new information. I'm going to die out here. And I'm going to die alone."

"He left you the fortune, Avery, and all he left us is you."

"You don't want a prince, you want a puppet!"

"The power to protect is the highest of responsibilities, Diago. When a man is given it, his duty is not only to the people he thinks are worthy."

"That's how the Hierarchy operates, after all: the potential of reward ahead, and menace of punishment chasing behind. Even if only one of them is usually real."