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The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1) QUOTES

The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1) QUOTES

1 " Love really was like a bird. You didn’t know where it might settle, or where. You couldn’t tame it, couldn’t force it. Couldn’t often predict it. You could call and call for it and never would it flutter down. Then, at the most unexpected time, in the most unexpected place, it was there. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

2 " Well, if you’re giving me a choice—I’ll take the flirting. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

3 " That’s my sister. Abbie, I mean. Not the pug. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

4 " It’s you that see people, Oliver. Sees them truly, sees them clearly. Sees them with purpose—and that purpose is to care. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

5 " He can whisper the future to His prophets. He can send and heal plagues. He can raise the dead. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

6 " He knows your name. Not Libby, not Elizabeth Sinclair. Your true name, the one at the heart of you that has never been spoken. He knows you, and He calls you by it. You, in all your uniqueness. You, in all that makes you different from others. You, in all that you have in common with them. He knows you, and He calls you by name. He knows how you fit into this world. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

7 " We see only in part. But there is more. More to this physical world that your magnifying lenses can show you. And more still beyond it that we need a spiritual lens to see. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

8 " He just wanted to get to know her better, from the inside out. He wanted the right to slide his fingers down her arm and weave them with hers. He wanted her here, at his side, indefinitely.
Heaven help him. This was all Mamm-wynn's fault, putting ideas in his head. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

9 " Because it's by naming a thing, knowing a thing, that you come to understand it. Only when you see its unique traits can you truly appreciate what it is, and what it isn't. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

10 " But how sins could be forgiven, how Jesus could have taken them upon himself with death and then come to life again, how they could somehow partake of a world beyond the physical one she so loved…those were the things that belonged to faith. Those were the things science couldn’t explain, and didn’t need to. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

11 " Everyone in the Scillies knew that when Oliver Tremayne took hold of your arm and looked deep into your eyes, he saw right down to your soul. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

12 " The islands know your names they know all of us who love them. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

13 " How lovely it must be to know your place in the world without ever having to think about it. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

14 " Isn’t it tiring, being such a blighter all the time? "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

15 " When we stay, it’s because the islands know our names, and they whisper them to us on the wind. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

16 " You're fretting, Ollie. What does the Good Book say about that?
Somehow, it's always easier to quote those passages for another than live it for myself. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

17 " The seed may be the plant only in potential, but without it, there would be no plant at all. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

18 " My sweet Libby. You’re not alone. You’re never alone. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

19 " That the lens of the spirit was to faith what her microscope was to the world-that was a thought that brought unspeakable peace to her mind. More, it was one that made her crave both lenses-the physical and the spiritual. "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)

20 " Names...they matter to us. They shape our souls in ways I've never fully understood. But have you pondered the power of them? "

― Roseanna M. White , The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)