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1 " You need to trust God so you can trust others. "
― Laurie Alice Eakes , Lady in the Mist (The Midwives, #1)
2 " Loss makes the soul sick "
3 " Crying had made her want a shoulder on which to rest her head, arms to hold her. She'd wasted too many tears alone in her room, her garden, walking along the shore, praying for God to send her someone to share her sorrows along with her joys. "
4 " I expect she'll walk down the aisle to her groom with a book in her pocket. "
― Laurie Alice Eakes
5 " Rafe hadn't sworn in front of a lady since he was fifteen and said something unacceptable in his mother's hearing. Though he'd been twice her size already, she grabbed him by his hair queue and dragged him to her boudoir, where she proceeded to wash his mouth out with lavendar soap. He had been vilely sick, to this day couldn't bear the scent of lavendar, anhd watched his tongue around females of all ages and social rank. "
― Laurie Alice Eakes , Heart's Safe Passage (The Midwives, #2)
6 " Offensive, no. Mortifying, yes. "
― Laurie Alice Eakes , A Flight of Fancy (The Daughters of Bainbridge House, #2)
7 " Please don’t be angry with him. My mither didn’t love him, and he’s still trying to make her. "
8 " The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken hear; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Pslam 34.18 "
9 " But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah "
10 " dinner party at the Pascoes’ estate the following Friday evening, "
― Laurie Alice Eakes , A Lady's Honor (Cliffs of Cornwall, #1)
11 " I gave my pledge to you, Cassandra, Whittaker began. "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." (Shakespeare) "
12 " The sea beckoned, a constant taker and giver of life, ebbing and flowing, ever changing, yet comforting in its power. "
13 " He wasn’t much for TV and hadn’t thought to bring a book with him, so he ran up one hill and down another, "
― Laurie Alice Eakes , The Mountain Midwife
