The Barefoot Bride Quotes

“I got more sense’n to leave my gun whar I cain’t reach it so’s a bahr could git me. And yore back ain’t no ribbons. It’s got a scratch on it, but it ain’t near as bad as yore a-sayin’ it is. Yore the complainin’est man I ever—”
― Rebecca Paisley, The Barefoot Bride

“And many thanks to you, Mrs. Blackwell, for bringing the weaknesses of our cell locks to our attention. She broke out twice,” the officer informed Saxon. “We finally had to tie her up.”
― Rebecca Paisley, The Barefoot Bride

“What a truly remarkable emotion love is,” he whispered, his breath fogging the window. Only love, the very thing he’d once believed to be pure myth, could have made him feel the way he had today at the race. He’d been irritated by the way people laughed at her, angered by the condescending way everyone looked and sneered at her. The whispered insults he’d heard had infuriated him, and Wesley’s slander had finally hurled him into a rage.”
― Rebecca Paisley, The Barefoot Bride

“His mind strayed from his work to her. His dreams were never of anything but her. There was nothing beautiful in the world that didn’t, in some way, remind him of her. And he began to wonder if he really did have a heart after all. For didn’t you have to possess a heart to be so dangerously close to losing it?”
― Rebecca Paisley, The Barefoot Bride

“Didn’t never say I’d kill the man. ‘Course, never said I wouldn’t, neither. Y’see, I got a mind to git out and see this country one day, Saxon. Ain’t never gwine leave these hills ferever, but thur’s a passel o’ thangs I don’t know nothin’ about. And who knows? Maybe whilst I’m a-travelin’, I’ll come acrost ole Barton Winslow. The world’s big, but thur’s only so many places a man can hide.”
― Rebecca Paisley, The Barefoot Bride

“The Appalachian Mountains. Perhaps a little more uncivilized than he cared for, but anything was better than marriage.”
― Rebecca Paisley, The Barefoot Bride

“I like everything about women except marrying one. But Grandmother is adamant. Either I marry or I’ll be disinherited.”
― Rebecca Paisley, The Barefoot Bride

“When he was gone, Dr. Larson picked up a scalpel. “Talk to your wolf,” he instructed Chickadee. “Tell him you’re here. Tell him the things you always tell him. Remind him of life.”
― Rebecca Paisley, The Barefoot Bride

“I always knowed love was somethin’ powerful, Khan, but I didn’t never know jist how unbeatable it is. You cain’t control it, boy. Cain’t love jist a little bit like I reckoned. Thur ain’t no measurements when it comes to love. Either you love or you don’t.”
― Rebecca Paisley, The Barefoot Bride

“Chickadee ain’t no reg’lar girl,” Betty Jane announced. “She can outdo most menfolks around these here parts. Got the strength o’ them bahrs she kills. Wouldn’t never know it to look at her, though. Some say it’s her spirit that gives her strength. But she’s a livin’ legend, shore and sartin.”
― Rebecca Paisley, The Barefoot Bride

“You will not be making light of the situation if I die before your wedding. In that event, Desdemona and my fortune will go to my distant cousin in England. You know very well that pitiful sister of yours will never marry, so the responsibility of providing an heir to the Blackwell fortune is yours. It’s time you face up to that obligation, and my new will forces you to do just that.”
― Rebecca Paisley, The Barefoot Bride