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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."