Without Words Quotes

“He bears a grudge over what happened years ago," Mary said. "He admitted he's angry over Father Sterling's horses—and the plumbing of all things. He's always been a difficult man, but surely you can keep him from cutting off his nose to spite his face—and your face I might add."
Hassie thought of blazing heat and freezing rain, dust and mud, practicing what to do if surprised by Indians, Bret bleeding on the ground and a man with a gun standing over him. If she had her own gun on her right now, she might shoot a lamp or two.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Without Words

“Tell him? His idea of the best kind of present would be one she’d show him, not tell him.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Without Words

“There will be other things to wonder at.”
“Without mountains and rivers what will there be?”
She fought the temptation to tell him of the greatest thing they would wonder over.
“There will be Christmas trees.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Without Words

“I think this moment right now is worth every day of the years wandering in the wilderness it took to get here.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Without Words

“Like an old photograph they had no color, no longer seemed real.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Without Words

“He moved slightly, his voice as soft in its way as his hands had been. “I think this moment right now is worth every day of the years wandering in the wilderness it took to get here.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Without Words

“Her laugh had done that. A woman with a ruined voice shouldn’t have a whispery, silvery laugh that crawled up a man’s spine with delicate little female claws and roused things long dead and better left that way.”
― Ellen O'Connell, Without Words