In the Shadow of Midnight Quotes

“And mind you keep a sharp eye on this child’s back. If you let so much as a hair on her head fall into harm, I’ll pluck you like a chicken and spit you stem to stern.”

“Don’t worry, Old Witch. If anything happens to Blue Eyes, there will not be much left of me after McBride is finished.”
― Marsha Canham, Under the Desert Moon

“Aubrey curled back into the warm nest of blankets and closed her eyes with a sigh. She half-expected the Dream to stalk her again, but it didn’t. The only images that came to her were of a desert moon, swollen and glistening in a midnight sky; a bank of lush green moss by the edge of a river; and two naked bodies twined together in a passion as deep and raging as the river that flowed beside them.

And once, for a fleeting moment, she thought she wakened to the faint scent of tobacco drifting through the open window. It wasn’t real, of course, and there had been no one standing there smoking a thin black cheroot, but the image lingered, and so did the taste of his name on her lips.”
― Marsha Canham, Under the Desert Moon

“Ain’t lost unless yus don’t know where yus are,” Jim grumbled. “I know’d where we are, it’s jest that no one else does.”
― Marsha Canham, Under the Desert Moon

“You’re supposed to make a wish on a falling star,” he murmured.

“Did you?”

“I most certainly did. It took two dozen, but you’re finally here.”
― Marsha Canham, Under the Desert Moon

“Godstrewth!” Brevant scoffed. “Brothers, sisters ... happens did you bring a granny or two along to tuck you to bed at night?”

“Nay, friend,” Henry answered blithely. “But we do have a faery dwarf who serves just as well.”
― Marsha Canham, In the Shadow of Midnight

“Did you really mean what you said?" she asked softly. "If God Himself were waiting at Gloucester, you would not relinquish me?" He did not meet her gaze, but the muscles in his arms bunched beneath her hands as he pulled her close again. "I meant it, he whispered, burying his lips in her hair.”
― Marsha Canham, In the Shadow of Midnight