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1 " Grace doesn't work like that, Kit. I know my life's been pretty easy, and my list of sins wouldn't make anyone blush, but I'm not perfect and I've read the Bible enough to know that grace doesn't come because of anything you can do. Jesus didn't die and rise again so you could crucify yourself with guilt. "
― Kristi Ann Hunter , A Defense of Honor (Haven Manor, #1)
2 " He thought that appeasing his curiosity would be enough to make him willing to forget her, but the opposite was happening. Every answer unearthed three more questions about a girl born into his world, yet different than any other woman he’d ever met. "
3 " I’ve learned a funny thing about the past,” she finally said. “The ghosts that haunt you the most are the ones you refuse to acknowledge. The past you try to bury has the most power to hurt you. "
4 " A Good man sees what he’s been given and does the best he can to earn it. "
5 " It was time to start over. That was what Haven Manor was about, wasn’t it? A fresh start? A life where your mistakes didn’t define you? It was time she took that for herself. "
6 " Yes, this was a family, here in this room, but every last one of them was aware that it was a family they’d had to create, a family of necessity. It wasn’t the same as a family with parents and siblings and a future that extended beyond preparing them to work for a living. "
7 " And maybe that was what God wanted her to remember. That there was good and bad in this world, and she could choose which she focused on, which she wanted to be a part of. She could push back the shadows without living in them herself. "