Quotes from Sara Donati

All I want is a household of my own," Margaret said. "With my own people, who look to me first instead of last.

Endeavor to deserve her

What an odd idea, really, to know that someone so very necessary in your life was lost to you and couldn't be called back.

She would miss him for the rest of her life.

The other white man was a Scot," said Nathaniel. "Married into the tribe, by the name Ian Murray

Sometimes I'll regret the things I gave up," Elise said. "But isn't that always the way? Everyone makes choices and most people doubt themselves at one time or another.

the deepest touch. His place inside of her, where no one else knew her; where she did not know herself.

Don't go looking for trouble, it will find you soon enough without you shouting out an invitation.

I'm sure there are many women who would prefer not to have children, but few of them are honest with themselves about that.

It was the most difficult problem they faced. A problem without a solution, and repercussions that were all too real: at one extreme another child might be born into a family of six or eight or more, living in a single room without a window or a privy. On the other extreme were the midwives and doctors who might be sent to prison or harassed until nothing remained of their careers. One

And how was a person to deal with such generosity? To start with, she could appreciate the beautiful things around her.

the day came for every woman when she must choose one kind of life or another or let someone else make the choice for her.

The wound is the place where the light enters. —RUMI (attributed)

Some women had that strength hidden inside them, a light that flared to life when everyone else was overwhelmed.

In the end few people are strong enough to reject what society expects of them.

The wound is the place where the light enters.

What I'm saying is, you're a turned-inward soul; it's the way you cope with the hard things in life. You hide away.

That's the hardest part, being strong enough to let the hurt in, and deal with it, and then let it settle in time, as it will.

No one ever does anything out of charity," Anna went on. "Every choice we make benefits ourselves directly or indirectly. Even if it looks like a sacrifice, the alternative would be unbearable in some way. If I hadn't helped I wouldn't sleep well, and I need my sleep.

I got him back down to our camp near the lake, and we found him a doctor, a woman tending the wounded." "A doctor or a woman?" "Both," said Nathaniel. "A woman surgeon?" asked Elizabeth, confused. "The White Witch," said Runs-from-Bears. "I've heard tell of her.

Happy unions cannot take root under such a cloud of deception and artifice.

But a true friendship between women is the strongest bond of all.

Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise.

The future is mysterious and frightening to you now, but in the end all will be well. There will be great happiness and great sorrow, you will have a family, you will find yourself capable of things you cannot now imagine. But you will persevere, and one day you will look around yourself and know that your life is good and that you are, in spite of all your early fears, happy.