85 Quotes by Laura Frantz

She would stay strong. She would remember the promises in Scripture. She would hope and pray and not give away.

I made a terrible mistake marryin’ Piper. It was you I said my vows to on my weddin’ day – your face was in my mind. And that night ’twas you I – ” “Nay!” She covered his mouth with her hand, unable to hear it, but he only held her tighter. She cried until the front of his linen shirt was damp with her tears, and when she pushed away from him he would not let her go. “There’s never been another like you,” he whispered. “And never will there be.

No need to get uppity now. There’s just all kinds of talk swirlin’ since Colonel McLinn abandoned his men at maneuvers and come to yo’ cabin like he did. You know what folks are startin’ to call you, don’t you?” She darted a sly look her way. “ ‘The Colonel’s Lady.

She’d already memorized the short Psalm and was hungry for more. Indeed, each word seemed woven into her soul the way the weaver wove his wares, taking the barest threads of her faith and making something beautiful and enduring as fine cloth deep inside her.

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

You’re much too lovely – and well dressed – to be sitting alone by the fire, Miss Rowan.

He’d have to keep a careful watch on her once the polemen came ashore. These free-spirited Frenchmen, whom he liked well enough, became absolute devils when drunk, their antics so spectacularly sinful they made his most hardened soldiers blush.

Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen. Samuel Johnson.

Before she could even step off the porch he was picking her up. “Light as thistledown,” he teased. “’Tis what I suspected.