The Reckless Kind Quotes

“Have you considered such lack of sentiment might be a curse?" His dulcet words were almost playful.
"Mikkelsen, I'm the most sentimental person in this blasted town. And, truthfully, that's my curse.”
― Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind

“Some Sundays we’d all meet at the groggery while everyone else was at church.”
― Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind

“Boys learn. Girls must be taught”
― Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind

“I didn't like being the cause of a beautiful young man's melancholy. I knew I had love in me. My love, though, wasn't the conjugal kind.”
― Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind

“Maybe people were like horses; they needed kindness and patience to help them when they’re afraid.”
― Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind

“Would it always be like this? My friendship with Gunnar was the deepest, truest thing in my life. But I was a girl without carnal instincts. Would my feelings always be less-than? Would I always be invisible?”
― Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind

“And my heart did desire--I wanted Gunnar and Erlend. Not as suitors. Of course not as suitors. But I wanted to continue holding on to these strange, beautiful feelings that drew us together--these moments between us that flourished with profound intimacy. We were equals, after all, even through I'd never get to possess the type of freedom they enjoyed as young bachelors.”
― Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind

“...And maybe folks in Muskox Hollow thought their arrangement was strange, or their parties too rambunctious, or that a lady should have a family and children instead of two gentlemen and thirteen tiny dogs, but no...I don't think Peder Johansen was terribly scandalous.'
'Scandalous or not, my love for the legend of Sullen Johansen was now exponential.”
― Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind

“Why was my future fated to be a Tennfjord not a Fuglestad? Not that I wanted to be Gunnar's wife, but if ladies were to be shuffled off into into other families once they reach a certain age, why couldn't we be offered as sisters or aunts or cousins? Instead of entering the Tennfjord family as a wife, I could join the Fuglestad family as a something-else.”
― Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind

“He’s on ‘is way to France, ya big grumpy jackass.”
― Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind

“I wasn’t going back to my parents. They’d probably feed me a fattened calf, and make me eat it whether I liked it or not.”
― Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind

“Erland continued looking at me - reins in one hand, medical implements in the other. As he sat in his saddle his face said I’m sorry, but you know I’m right.”
― Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind