16 Quotes by Ellen O'Connell

Maybe occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and gave her to an ordinary man. Maybe they did such a thing once in a while, knowing an ordinary man would treasure her more, love her better.

You know, Annie, a long time ago an old man told me beauty doesn’t mean much in a woman. It disappears with age. But he said some women have something better. They have a special glow that lasts all their life and just gets richer. You’re like that. You really shine.

That took a while.” Frank was looking not at her but at his brother. She needed to tell somebody. “It was awful. That horse really is vicious. I wish I could go back and relive last Sunday, and we wouldn’t be here.” Frank said, “The thing you’ve got to learn is that Cord’s meaner than most of what he comes up against. You were worried about him the day he half-killed those poor yahoos too, if I remember.

How can ladies bleed from inside for a week every month? You’d fall over dead.

Your skin is white, but I think the white god made a mistake, or maybe he did it on purpose to play a joke. He gave you an Apache heart.

Anne had lived her whole life following the dictates of others. Now all the decisions were hers. What to do, when to do it, how to do it, so much depended on her, but instead of feeling weighed down, minute by minute, hour by hour, this new life wove a spell around her, leaving her feeling lighter and freer than she had ever dreamed possible.

If a man could taste wind and fire, they would taste like Katherine. When he stood in high places looking down on things made small by distance, he tried to feel what the eagle felt soaring free on the wind. He was an earthbound man. Only his spirit could ever soar, and only Katherine raised him so high.