The River Widow Quotes

“Why must you say such eccentric things?” “Maybe I’m eccentric.” “It’s not something most people aspire to.” “I’m not most people.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The River Widow

“Did love always come joined with a certain amount of trepidation? Along with the good feelings, was there always dread that something wouldn’t go right or that love could be lost? Love and fear seemed twined like stalks of a grapevine—so close they couldn’t be separated.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The River Widow

“Once, she’d overheard Jessamine, who had been an expert in herbs, tell a woman how to make a homespun spermicide to prevent pregnancy. Adah had remembered the recipe and followed that advice for the remainder of the marriage, even though her apparent barrenness had angered Lester further”
― Ann Howard Creel, The River Widow

“Adah discovered she had a knack for reading people. She took that God-given talent and further developed her observational skills. Everyone had a tell, and she used that more than anything else to survive by fortune-telling.”
― Ann Howard Creel, The River Widow