Quotations (16)

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“All at once, it seemed, the leaves of cottonwood trees around the cabin turned golden and whispered to themselves, then curled into black flutes and floated to the ground in crispy, lacy heaps.”
“And the books! She’d never seen so many. They whispered to her of unexplored worlds and unmet friends and she realized that she wasn’t alone in this new world. Her friends were here, spine out, waiting for her as they always had.”
“You don’t stop loving a person when they’re hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you.”
“He taught her something new about friendship: it picked right back up where you’d left off, as if you hadn’t been apart at all.”
“I think you stand by the people you love.”
“It’s scary that people can just stop loving you, you know?”
“like all fairy tales, theirs was filled with thickets and dark places and broken dreams, and runaway girls.”
“Alaska isn't about who you were when you headed this way. It's about who you become.”
“... home was not just a cabin in a deep woods that overlooked a placid cove. Home was a state of mind, the peace that came from being who you were and living an honest life.”
“Love and fear. The most destructive forces on earth. Fear had turned her inside out, love had made her stupid.”
“Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I’ve got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.”
“Such a thin veil separated the past from the present; they existed simultaneously in the human heart. Anything could transport you - the smell of the sea at low tide, the screech of a gull,the turquoise of a glacier-fed river. A voice in…
“Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I’ve got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.” - p. 240
“Love and fear. The most destructive forces on earth. Fear had turned her inside out, love had made her stupid.” - p. 284
“Alaska doesn’t attract many; most are too tame to handle life up here. But when she gets her hooks in you, she digs deep and holds on, and you become heres. Wild. A lover of cruel beauty and splendid isolation. And God help you, you can’t…
You know what they say about finding a man in Alaska—the odds are good, but the goods are odd.