A Trail Through Time (Chronicles of St. Mary's, #4)

by Jodi Taylor

if you’re alive then anything is possible. It’s being dead that limits your options.’

Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Do not waste the time given you in fretting over events you cannot control.

History glitters with the tales of men and women who, with no thought of reward or glory, make their stand and quietly do their duty.

I’ve learned that happiness is too fragile and fleeting to be messed around with. You have to grab it while you can.

But happiness is like grains of sand. The more tightly you clench your fist, the more it just slips through your fingers. I think that if we just come to rest somewhere and wait quietly, then one day we’ll look up and it’ll be there.