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The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill (Tales from Ivy Hill, #1) QUOTES

The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill (Tales from Ivy Hill, #1) QUOTES

1 " Manage the inn, Jane, save it. Have a mission in life. Discover that work worth doing is about more than profit and toil. It's about using the gifts and ability you've been given to serve your fellow man and please your Maker. "

― Julie Klassen , The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill (Tales from Ivy Hill, #1)

2 " Please forgive me for the way I've treated her, Rachel prayed. Please help me repair the damage I've done. Help her to forgive me too. Oh merciful Father, help me not to be so full of myself that there is no room for anyone else. And worse, no room for you. "

― Julie Klassen , The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill (Tales from Ivy Hill, #1)

3 " You don't wear jewelry, do you? Besides your wedding ring, I mean?'

'Now often. If is not that I disapprove. I simply don't take the time to bother with it. I've been given a few trinkets over the years, but rarely wear them.' Thora looked down at her hand, the plain thin wedding band, the unadorned wrist, and a memory struck her. She said, 'Frank gave me a gift once - a find gold bracelet with a blue enamel heart dangling from it. He said it was to remind me that I was more than his helpmeet and housekeeper, but also an attractive woman. I was sure I'd break the delicate chain, and the heart clacked against the desk whenever I wrote in the ledger. So I put it back in its box, and there it has remained ever since.'

Nan said gently, 'We've all been given gifts, Thors, and ought not to hide them away. They remind us that we are blessed and loved. They give pleasure to those who see them - especially to the one who bestowed the gift in the first place. "

― Julie Klassen , The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill (Tales from Ivy Hill, #1)

4 " Village life is like an ivy vine climbing a great oak. You cut off the vine at the root, and all the way up the tree, the leaves wither. We’re all connected.” For "

― Julie Klassen , The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill (Tales from Ivy Hill, #1)

5 " But I have a great deal to lose - my independence most of all."
"Is independence so important to you? Is there something you fear I would forbid you to do?"
"Forbid me?" Thora echoed. "The very thought that a man would have the right to forbid me anything spurs feelings of rebellion in my heart."
He turned to face her. "Do you trust me?"
"Trust you with what - my life? My heart? My future?"
"Yes, all of those things."
Did she? She considered Talbot a friend, yes. But she was not about to hitch her wagon to anyone else. To wash another man's dirty socks and lose what little independence she had. But nor did she want to lose his friendship. . .
He stepped nearer and gentled his voice. "Thora. A husband is to be the head of the family, yes. But don't forget he must be willing to lay down his life for his wife."
"I don't need anyone to lay down his life for me."
"No one?" His fair brows rose.
She shook her head. "I don't need saving."
"There I disagree with you. We all need saving. But you're right - you don't need me. Nor, when it comes down to it, do I NEED you. But I do want you, Thora Stonehouse Bell. I want you to be my wife. "

― Julie Klassen , The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill (Tales from Ivy Hill, #1)

6 " Is the old life you idealized really so ideal? … That life doesn’t exist any longer. "

― Julie Klassen , The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill (Tales from Ivy Hill, #1)