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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. "
3 " That’s my sister. Abbie, I mean. Not the pug. "
4 " It’s you that see people, Oliver. Sees them truly, sees them clearly. Sees them with purpose—and that purpose is to care. "
5 " He can whisper the future to His prophets. He can send and heal plagues. He can raise the dead. "
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. "
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. "
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. "
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. "
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. "
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. "
12 " The islands know your names they know all of us who love them. "
13 " How lovely it must be to know your place in the world without ever having to think about it. "
14 " Isn’t it tiring, being such a blighter all the time? "
15 " When we stay, it’s because the islands know our names, and they whisper them to us on the wind. "
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. "
17 " The seed may be the plant only in potential, but without it, there would be no plant at all. "
18 " My sweet Libby. You’re not alone. You’re never alone. "
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. "
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? "