“His words were like a soothing balm covering over the voices inside always taunting she’d never be good enough. He’d accepted her in spite of her mistakes. He approved of what she’d done. And he believed she was capable.”
― The Runaway Bride
― The Runaway Bride
“You are my own. You are my own. He had not meant the words in that way. He had been talking strictly about possession. But oh, the longing for his love was an unbearably painful ache in her.”
― Heartless
― Heartless
“But one by one she’d been cutting away the tangle of propriety so that with each thread she cut loose, she was slowly finding the freedom to be herself and not someone else’s version of who she ought to be.”
― The Runaway Bride
― The Runaway Bride
“I followed the curious intensity behind those dark blue eyes and the moment his eyes changed. Suddenly, my world felt terribly small, like I’d experienced merely a handful of what it had to offer.”
― Midnight on the River Grey
― Midnight on the River Grey
“You know how often we have longed for a sea voyage, as the fulfillment of all our dreams of poetry and romance, the realization of our highest conceptions of free, joyous existence.
Let me assure you, my dears. that going to sea is not at all the thing that we have taken it to be.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands.”
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Let me assure you, my dears. that going to sea is not at all the thing that we have taken it to be.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands.”
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