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5 stars. i really like this author. she makes her worlds seem so real that i get lost in her books.

"if i ever fall in love, it will be with a man who can see me dressed like this and still think i look beautiful." (wearing old ragged clothes to work in the garden)

"do you ever wish that i had been like them?"
"sometimes, but only because of what it cost you to be different. i wouldn't change anything."

"that's what family is for - to help you stop being stupid."
"that is not what family is for."
"you'll have to explain that to my wife. in point of fact, cousin, lynnea was the one who decided you needed to go home and kicked you out of the den. i'm just the messenger."

"he'd raged about the landscapers and bridges who were determined to believe the worst about glorianna because considering anything else might require them to use their brains."

"you don't know!"
"women have been saying that to men since the beginning of time, so is there something in particular that i should be knowing?"

"when a strong woman broke enough to reveal her pain, those tears were a fearsome thing to behold."

"before you blame someone else for your ill luck, consider this: nothing comes to you that doesn't live within your own heart."

"you promised you wouldn't faint again."
"i didnt faint."
"did a good imitation of it."
..." you scared kenneday and the crew out of half their wits when you started screaming."
"i wasn't screaming."
"trust me darling, before you didn't faint, you were definitely screaming."

"problem?"
"men are a pain in the ass."
"women have known that forever, but we love you anyway."

"you know what i'm saying."
"you're saying caitlin is going to have all this unsupervised time, and despite being a grown, albeit young, woman living in a community that not only understands her connection to the land but also values it, she will become a flirtatious blithering idiot just because a man with a nice smile and muscles has shown a little interest in her. is that what you're saying?"

"this feels foolish."
"then foolishness is all that will come of it."
... "if you believe you will fail, then that is what you will do - because that is your truth in this moment. that you want to fail. maybe even need to fail because you're not ready for the next stage of your journey."

"it might not work."
"you said that."
"i don't really know what i'm doing."
"you said that too."
"i just don't want you to hope for too much."
"isn't that the whole point? to hope?"