" Yet Katie held fast to the dream that perhaps there were men in the world who appreciated good women - men capable of loving a woman enough to die for her.

Something had to inspire the heroes in fairy tales and books.

Her Aunt Augusta always said it was only womenfolk’s eternal wish for better men that inspired such stories…but Katie liked to believe that living or, at least, once-living men inspired them. "

― Marcia Lynn McClure , The Prairie Prince