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Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2) QUOTES

Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2) QUOTES

1 " What if I agree to call you darling from now on, and you agree to call me Joseph?” Her expression was equal parts disbelief and amusement. “I always call you Joseph.” “I know. I just really like the way you say it.” She gave him a sidelong look. “Are you talking sweet to me, Joseph? "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

2 " We need to do something about your unpronounceable name.” ’Twas a pointed remark, one accompanied by a look of such earnestness she knew on the instant he meant it as more than a jest. “Perhaps I need a new one,” she suggested. He whispered, his breath tickling the hair that hung loose over her ear. “There is no ‘perhaps’ about it, Katie. I mean to see to it you have a new last name, and I know exactly which one it ought to be. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

3 " That right there, Katie, is proof to me that he’ll make you happy. And that is what I want most for you.” “You are a good man, Tavish O’Connor. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

4 " I love you, Katie Macauley.” He swallowed with effort. “I have almost from the very beginning. The longer I know you, the more I—” The pain of regret and worry forestalled any further admissions. “I need to go sit with the girls,” he said. “The O’Connors are going to look after you. I promise I’ll be back. I promise. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

5 " You’ve held up better than anyone could have expected, considering all that’s happened. And besides, what’s the use of having a man about if he can’t help piece you back together now and then? "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

6 " I have missed that smile, Katie.” He cupped her face with his hand, memorizing the look and feel of her there, less burdened, less pained than she’d been since the fire. “I worried so many times during the last ten days that I’d never see you smile again. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

7 " Laughing was his way of dealing with the difficulties. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

8 " A woman ought to be important enough to a man for him to make an effort to show her he thought of her often. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

9 " Though smiling through troubles didn’t always come easily, he’d found strength in it. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

10 " Most times, though, a woman doesn’t need saving; she needs someone to walk at her side while she works out her own rescue. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

11 " He prefers tears of laughter to tears of sadness. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

12 " He loved her with every beat of his heart. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

13 " Ten I will write you letters and leave them around the house for you to find.”
He meant to write her love letters. “And I will write you letters as well. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

14 " You’re no autumn leaf falling down at the first stiff breeze. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

15 " I believe Joseph may be courting her.” “There’s no ‘may be’ about it, son. There has long been a fondness in Joseph’s eyes when he speaks of her.” “I’ve noticed that myself.” But that hint of fondness had grown into something more of late. “I can’t like the idea of being set up to compete with Joseph Archer. He has every advantage.” “Is that so?” Da scratched his chin and gave him a look of deepest pondering. “Here I was thinking you had the advantage of being the first to court her, of sharing a heritage with her. And I could have sworn you had always had an easy way with women, a handsome enough face to turn heads wherever you go, and a personality one can’t help but grow fond of. And, fool that I am, I believed you were the one to whom she’d first opened her past and her heart.” “Then why is it, Da, I can’t shake off the worry that I might be losing her? "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

16 " There are far better distractions than putting up preserves,” he whispered to her. Her entire face heated even as a tiny smile echoed from her heart. “Do you never stop flirting, Tavish O’Connor?” “Of course. But I needed to see that smile of yours, Sweet Katie.” He spoke quietly, his breath tickling the hair near her temple. “Everything’s right in my world when you smile. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

17 " You smell like flowers, love. And you feel like heaven.” The tiniest of laughs answered. “You always do manage to think of honeyed words, don’t you?” “And what if I further said that, if we have a céilí this Saturday, I’d like for you to be my particular companion for the evening? "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

18 " You love him, Katie.” Biddy squeezed her shoulder. “That is not a weakness. Love gives us strength when our own fails us. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

19 " You do know, Katie, that you aren’t allowed to give up, don’t you? Even if you choose Tavish, even if you decide to go back to Ireland after all, you have to pull through this. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)

20 " I’m here, Katie.” He brushed his thumb over the lines of agony etched in her face. A tear escaped her eyes. Joseph kissed it away. “I’m here, Katie. I won’t leave you. "

― Sarah M. Eden , Hope Springs (Longing for Home, #2)