Born of Gilded Mountains Quotes

“I sometimes think, when our dreams seem impossible to us, perhaps we just haven't seen yet how God will chase after our hearts with those very dreams, in the unlikeliest ways.”
― Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

“Sunsets here were more an experience than a sight. They marked the soul. Pierced it, rearranged things with all that shifting color and light, and sealed it up again, a little more whole than it was before. The streaks of color across the sky just now were no exception.”
― Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

“And didn't God create each and every story - singleness and marriage alike - with just as much care and meaning?”
― Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

“The risk of 'too much' is better than the regret of 'too little,' I think, Willa said.”
― Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

“Willa's sweet voice, the way her own broken story wrapped around the word OURS... it meant belonging and freedom. And to belong... didn't one have to be known? And to be known... didn't one have to let people in?”
― Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

“On a stage of earth, beneath a canopy of stars, with a score of scattered laughter, Mercy watched a story unfold more enchanting than any the Dream Factory of Hollywood could have produced. Even the applause of the people, drifting up to meet and mingle with that of the aspen leaves, felt ethereal.”
― Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

“Sometimes being a friend means being a keeper if their treasure bin the times they can't hold onto it.”
― Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

“To get to Mercy Peak, Colorado, a plucky little locomotive known as a "Galloping Goose"--half train, half automobile--carried the rare visitor up the colorful foothills and into the emerald timberline.”
― Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

“But what do we do when both our worlds are dark?
We do what you said. We both go out and see it. We defy the dark. When we might want to bury our heads under a pile of blankets and shut the world out—we venture into that very world. Climb a hill, a rise, a peak. Find the moon when it's big and full. And we look it full in the face. Midnight my time, ten o'clock yours, next full moon.”
― Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

“Even her shoes were otherworldly, with heels so high they could qualify as Rocky Mountain peaks.”
― Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

“Spatts is strong. - Rusty”
― Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains