64 Quotes by Eowyn Ivey

The leaden sky seemed to hold its breath.

The December days had a certain luminosity and sparkle, like frost on bare branches, alight in the morning just before it melts. Mabel.

To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as your were able before it slipped like water between your fingers.

We are allowed to do that, are we not Mabel? To invent our own endings and choose joy over sorrow?

She seemed to him both powerful and delicate, like a wild thing that thrives in its place but withers when stolen away.

It’s humanity. We’re complicated and messy and beautiful.

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.

I think if I ever tell it to my grandchildren, I will change the ending and have everyone live happily ever after. We are allowed to do that, are we not Mabel? To invent our own endings and choose joy over sorrow?

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.