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1. "I guess maybe I don't want to be warm and safe. I want to live." ~ Eowyn Ivey
2. "For en tragisk historie! Jeg fatter ikke hvorfor slike eventyr for barn alltid må ende med forferdelse. Jeg tror at hvis jeg noen gang skal fortelle barnebarna mine det eventyret, skal jeg forandre slutten og la dem leve lykkelig alle sine dager. Vi har lov til det, vel, Mabel? Å dikte vår egen slutt og snu sorg til glede?" ~ Eowyn Ivey
3. "He thought Mabel would cry, and he wanted to be anywhere else. It was wrong and cowardly, and he'd done it before--when Mabel lost the baby and shook with grief...But it was like the need to take a breath. The urge was too strong, and without saying another word, Jack left the cabin." ~ Eowyn Ivey
4. "All those sounds of her failure and regret would be left behind, and in their place there would be silence." ~ Eowyn Ivey
5. "..she expected to drown before she reached it." ~ Eowyn Ivey
6. "He put one foot in front of the other and walked without seeing or feeling." ~ Eowyn Ivey
7. "No warm blood in me doth glowWater in my veins doth flowYet I'll laugh and sing and playBy frosty night and frosty dayLittle daughter of the snowBut whenever I do knowThat you love me little, thenI shall melt away againBack into the sky I'll goLittle daughter of the snow" ~ Eowyn Ivey
8. "Don't you see? This was to be ours together, the successes and the failures...All of this? he said, and couldn't help a smile. Yes, all of this. Then she too smiled." ~ Eowyn Ivey
9. "In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there is no harm in finding magic among the trees." ~ Eowyn Ivey
10. "She looked directly up into the northern lights and she wondered if those cold-burning spectres might not draw her breath, her very soul, out of her chest and into the stars." ~ Eowyn Ivey
11. "We are allowed to do that, are we not Mabel? To invent our own endings and choose joy over sorrow?" ~ Eowyn Ivey
12. "She could not fathom the hexagonal miracle of snowflakes formed from clouds, crystallized fern and feather that tumble down to light on a coat sleeve, white stars melting even as they strike. How did such force and beauty come to be in something so small and fleeting and unknowable? You did not have to understand miracles to believe in them, and in fact Mabel had come to suspect the opposite. To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as you were able before it slipped like water between your fingers. (kindle location 2950)" ~ Eowyn Ivey
13. "Sometimes these things happen. Life doesn't go the way we plan or hope, but we don't have to be so angry, do we?" ~ Eowyn Ivey
14. "As the glow of the cabin windows turned to flickers through the trees and then to black, her eyes adjusted and the starlight alone on the pure white snow was enough to light her way. The cold scorched her cheeks and her lungs, but she was warm in her fox hat and wool. An owl swooped through the spruce boughs, a slow-flying shadow, but she was not frightened. She felt old and strong, like the mountains and the river. She would find her way home." ~ Eowyn Ivey
15. "All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses. It was the flutter of moth wings on glass and the promise of river nymphs in the dappled creek beds. It was the smell of oak trees on the summer evening she fell in love, and the way dawn threw itself across the cow pond and turned the water to light." ~ Eowyn Ivey
16. "Doubt crouched over his shoulder, ready to take him by the throat, whispering in his ear, You are an old man. An old, old man." ~ Eowyn Ivey
17. "It would be a hard life, but it would be theirs alone. Here at the world's edge, far from everything familiar and safe, they would build a new home in the wilderness and do it as partners." ~ Eowyn Ivey
18. "She had thought often of Ada's words about inventing new endings to stories and choosing joy over sorrow. In recent years she had decided her sister had been in part wrong. Suffering and death and loss were inescapable. And yet, what Ada had written about joy was entirely true. When she stands before you with her long, naked limbs and her mysterious smile, you must embrace her while you can." ~ Eowyn Ivey
19. "...did fear drive her? Fear of the gray, not just in the strands of her hair and her wilting cheeks, but the gray that ran deeper, to the bone, so that she thought she might turn into a fine dust and simply sift away in the wind.....She cooked and cleaned, and cooked and cleaned, and found herself further consumed by the gray, until even her vision was muted and the world around her drained of color." ~ Eowyn Ivey
20. "When she first fell in love with Jack, she dreamed she could fly..." ~ Eowyn Ivey
21. "She knew the snow and it carried her gently... She knew the land by heart." ~ Eowyn Ivey
22. "Like a rainbow trout in a stream, the girl sometimes flashed her true self to him." ~ Eowyn Ivey
23. "As Jack knelt in the bloody snow, he wondered if that was how a man held up his end of the bargain, by learning and taking into his heart this strange wilderness—guarded and naked, violent and meek, tremulous in its greatness." ~ Eowyn Ivey
24. "Following the pattern offered a kind of comfort, a quiet balance to working in the field during the day. The farmwork was coarse, exhausting, and largely a matter of faith - a farmer threw everything he had into the earth, but ultimately it wasn't up to him whether it rained or not. Sewing was different. Mabel knew if she was patient and meticulous, if she carefully followed the rules, that in the end when it was turned right-side out, it would be just how it was meant to be. A small miracle in itself, and one that life so rarely offered." ~ Eowyn Ivey
25. "She might be curt and ungrateful, but by God she could bake." ~ Eowyn Ivey
26. "When she had the strength, she began to fold the tiny clothes and blankets and cloth diapers and put them into plain brown boxes. She didn't stop working, but the sobs came and distorted her face, bleared her eyes, made her nose run. She didn't hear Jack come to the door. When she looked up he was watching her silently, and then he turned away, uncomfortable, embarrassed by her unharnessed grief. He didn't put his hand on her shoulder. Didn't hold her. Didn't say a word. Even these many years later, she was unable to forgive him that." ~ Eowyn Ivey
27. "You did not have to understand miracles to believe in them, and in fact Mabel had begun to suspect the opposite. To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as you were able before it slipped like water between your fingers." ~ Eowyn Ivey
28. "It was beautiful, Mabel knew, but it was a beauty that ripped you open and scoured you clean so that you were left helpless and exposed, if you lived at all." ~ Eowyn Ivey
29. "It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her." ~ Eowyn Ivey
30. "You start seeing things that you're afraid of… or things you've always wished for." ~ Eowyn Ivey
31. "She slid her boot soles onto the surface and nearly laughed at her own absurdity - to be careful not to slip even as she prayed to fall through." ~ Eowyn Ivey
32. "She and Jack had formed her of snow and birch boughs and frosty wild grass." ~ Eowyn Ivey
33. "She had watched other women with infants and eventually understood what she craved: the boundless permission-no, the absolute necessity- to hold and kiss and stroke this tiny person. Cradling a swaddled infant in their arms, mothers would distractedly touch their lips to their babies' foreheads. Passing their toddlers in a hall, mothers would tousle their hair even sweep them up in their arms and kiss them hard along their chins and necks until the children squealed with glee. Where else in life, Mabel wondered, could a woman love so openly and with such abandon?" ~ Eowyn Ivey

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