Daughters of the Lake Quotes

“Everything seems out of control until you've had coffee.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“When Addie discovered she herself was expecting a child,”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“You didn’t!” Simon hooted. “That’s so Alexis Carrington in Dynasty of you.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“saw my great-grandfather”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“The Widow’s House, The Library of Light and Shadow, or The Queen’s Vow.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“Teenaged girls have a way of holding fast to their illusions, even as those illusions are dissipating into the air. Denial of unpleasant reality is as powerful as the reality itself.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“Soon, Kate and Nick were in the kitchen, aprons on, knives in hand. She was slicing tomatoes, and he was chopping onions. Bacon was sizzling under the broiler, and chicken was cooking on the stovetop grill. A pot of pasta water was heating on one burner, a stainless steel pan was warming on another, and in a saucepan, butter was melting. “What are we making, exactly?” Nick asked. “Cheesy pasta with onion, bacon, tomato, spinach, and chicken,” she said. “Comfort food. I thought we could both use a dose of it. My own famous recipe. Here, hand me those onions, will you? And get the milk out of the fridge?” As the pasta bubbled in the water, Kate began sautéing the onions. “This’ll be your job,” she said to Nick, handing him the spatula and stepping away from her post in front of the pan. “Caramelize. Don’t burn. And then add the tomatoes and, last, the spinach.” “Yes, ma’am.” He smiled. While he was doing that, Kate added a few tablespoons of flour to the melted butter in the saucepan and stirred to make a roux. To that, she added the milk and the shredded cheese. Ten minutes later, they were back at their table with heaping bowls of pasta in front of them.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“But some stories, especially peculiar, hidden ones involving murder and mystery, have a way of bubbling to the surface, especially when wrongs need to be righted. They make themselves heard despite efforts to keep them silent. All in the proper time. And now was the proper time.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“I have the whole earth to remember you by. The lakeshore, the woods, this cove, our town, the sky.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“Of course, modern-day folk weren’t given to such superstitions. They had a way of forgetting the past, so intent were they on the future. Legends and lore became nothing more than stories that might entertain guests sitting around the fireplace after a nice dinner. The old beliefs faded as the modern age dawned, but the spirits that inspired those legends remained, kept doing their important work, waiting for someone to believe again.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“This is what true peace feels like, she thought. This is what it is to be where one’s soul resides.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“She slipped into the other world peacefully, even joyfully, surrounded by the living, who were grieving her passing, and the dead, who were rejoicing her homecoming.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“he rapped her doorframe three times for luck, the way he used to when she was young and afraid of the dark. “This calls the angels,” he would say to her. “Now they’re here, watching over you.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“Denial of unpleasant reality is as powerful as the reality itself.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“Parents never believed children when they had something important to say.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“Could it be true that some people were literally made for each other? Proof of that romantic notion seemed to be standing before them.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“And then, hands were touching her throat, scratching at her neck, constricting, choking.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“and the first moment he heard her laugh, he knew he had fallen deeply in love with her.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“The entire hall seemed to take a collective breath. All eyes were on them.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“Do you know how wonderful you are?” “Of course I do,” Simon laughed. “I’ve been singing my own praises for years.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“During his childhood, Kevin had honed the art of making friends quickly and deeply, in a frantic effort to create some sort of intimacy in his life before it was smashed to pieces when the family had to pack up and move to his father’s next post. After many years of this, it became easy for Kevin to create relationships. Sustaining them was another matter. He never had any practice at it. He simply left people behind as he began new phases of his life, knowing that someone else would arise to take their places.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“Mr. Stewart is accused of killing his wife. The crime is made all the more heinous by the fact that Mrs. Stewart was expecting their first child. Her body has not been found.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“I don’t think Ansel Adams Photoshopped any of his images,” Nick said, leaning forward. “That was all his eye, his skill as an artist.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“Compliments are always a good way to break the ice. ‘My, isn’t your dress beautiful?’ or, to complete strangers, ‘I don’t believe we’ve met. I’m”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“he could train Addie to do the same. Of course! Why hadn’t he thought of this before? Jess took Addie”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake

“she was serious and deep and thought about things like the earth and the lake and nature, and how they all related to each other. They talked about these and other important things, connecting through their souls.”
― Wendy Webb, Daughters of the Lake