The Courting of Bristol Keats (The Courting of Bristol Keats, #1)

by Mary E. Pearson

The universe opened a door for me, and who was I to look away? —ANASTASIA WIGGINS

Our past is a shadow that follows us. For better or worse, it shapes us, and sometimes it controls us.

It was impossible to move forward when part of you was trapped in the past.

She always wondered if things might have gone a different way if only she had stayed, a small difference, like the fluttering of a butterfly wing that turns the direction of a storm.

Forgiveness is a thing of the heart, and every heart is wounded and mended in its own way.”