The Fire and the Ore Quotes

“God never fails to hear earnest prayer from the heart of a true believer,”
― Olivia Hawker, The Fire and the Ore

“Jane had heard of every tragedy: the burning of the temple in Illinois; the destruction of the settlements in Missouri; the bloody slaughter at Haun’s Mill; the siege of Far West, where women and even young girls were tied to schoolhouse benches and used in the cruelest manner. She’d heard of the ruin of Nauvoo, the Illinois haven that was supposed to be a new Eden for the church. Their prophet had been murdered in the Nauvoo days—an insult it seemed no Mormon would ever forget. “The army won’t treat us kindly if they find us here,” Tabitha said.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Fire and the Ore

“And yet the Americans have worked themselves into a frenzy over the fact of our sovereignty. They’re inventing falsehoods—dangerous lies. This very article goes on to claim that Brigham burned a set of American lawbooks as an act of deliberate rebellion. I’ve never heard such nonsense in all my days. And these foul tales of polygamy. Did you ever!”
― Olivia Hawker, The Fire and the Ore

“Brigham did choose this valley because it was so far beyond the reach of the American government. The church has intended all along to create a state ruled by God’s law.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Fire and the Ore

“Men who fear the wages of sin have convinced themselves that if they marry the women after whom they’ve been lusting, then they’ve committed no trespass against God. As the Bible says, if a man looks on a woman with lust in his heart, then he has already committed adultery, even before he touches her. Yet if he marries that woman—” Tabitha shrugged. “One can’t commit adultery with one’s own wife.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Fire and the Ore

“But rather than accept mankind’s nature for what it is, this church has decided that all human urges are the work of Satan.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Fire and the Ore

“A little faith is a good thing. Too much is poison to common sense.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Fire and the Ore

“Do I think it’s a fact that some men have taken more than one woman as wife? I don’t merely think it; I know. You forget, Tamar: I’m the midwife of these parts. No baby is born within ten miles of Centerville without my knowing it. And”
― Olivia Hawker, The Fire and the Ore

“There’d be nothing to fear,” Tabitha said, “if some of these men would give up their scandalous behaviors and return to proper, civilized conduct.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Fire and the Ore

“Every conversation turned, sooner or later, to speculation on what the summer might bring. Buchanan was growing more insistent that Deseret must bend the knee to Washington, while Brigham Young stood fast in his insistence that freedom of religion would be honored.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Fire and the Ore

“She couldn’t move the monolith of grief from her path, but she could blaze a trail around her grief and use it as her landmark.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Fire and the Ore

“This was the day she had waited for. The day she had suffered for, the reward she had left her home in England to claim—the promise for which she had walked more than a thousand miles, through the merciless heat of”
― Olivia Hawker, The Fire and the Ore

“A little faith is a good thing. Too much is a poison to common sense.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Fire and the Ore