A Moonbow Night Quotes

“One of life's most painful mysteries was that time moved on, with or without you. Those left behind loved and laughed and resumed living as if you'd never been at all.”
― Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night

“I don’t believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure. —WENDELL BERRY, JAYBER CROW”
― Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night

“But for the moment, with the moonlight pouring down, calling out every fetching feature . . . He was no longer just besotted with the stars.”
― Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night

“Love won’t be forced.” Nay, it would not. Love would be denied, rebuffed, cut down. Nipped in the bud long before the blossom. But never forced.”
― Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night

“He longed to put names to nameless things.”
― Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night

“If this be a fallen, half-forsaken world, what wonders lay in the next? She had a large hope for what waited on the other side of death.”
― Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night

“What cannot be cured must be endured.”
― Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night

“No matter her heartache, she'd begun to embrace whatever was handed to her, shrugging with a broody spirit to enter fully within.”
― Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night

“One of life’s most painful mysteries was that time moved on, with or without you. Those left behind loved and laughed and resumed living as if you’d never been at all.”
― Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night

“Of all emotions, jealousy was hardest to stomach.”
― Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night

“You reckon Russell would miss me?” The hope in her words twisted Tempe’s heart. “Oh, he would, but he’d never likely say. Russell holds tight to what hurts.”
― Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night

“You believe in heaven, Mister Stoner?'
'More than I believe in here, aye.'
She smoothed a corner of the folded blanket. 'Out here in the quiet heaven seems near, nearer than the inn where it's all bustle and noise.'
'You can hear the Almighty speak in the silences, you mean. See His hand most clear. I believe so too, but you got to want to see Him. hear Him.' He looked toward the hatchet throwers. 'Not turn a blind eye and ride right over what He's put in your path, nor try to outrun Him. Mebbe it's up to you and me to slow some folks down so they get quiet enough to hear Him.”
― Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night

“Did she have to be so downright fetching in her refusal?
Taking Annie back, he struck a sterner pose in order to keep all comers at bay.”
― Laura Frantz, A Moonbow Night