“She and Jack had formed her of snow and birch boughs and frosty wild grass.” — Eowyn Ivey Snow Copy Share Image
“All those sounds of her failure and regret would be left behind, and in their place there would be silence.” — Eowyn Ivey Failure Copy Share Image
“You’ll drive yourself crazy looking for something that’s not there.” — Eowyn Ivey Crazy Copy Share Image
“When she first fell in love with Jack, she dreamed she could fly...” — Eowyn Ivey Dreamed Copy Share Image
“He put one foot in front of the other and walked without seeing or feeling.” — Eowyn Ivey Foot Copy Share Image
“Why, in our efforts to understand and observe life, must we so often snuff it out?” — Eowyn Ivey Life Copy Share Image
“She knew the snow and it carried her gently... She knew the land by heart.” — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“She slid her boot soles onto the surface and nearly laughed at her own absurdity - to be careful not to slip… — Eowyn Ivey Slip Prayed Copy Share Image
“Doubt crouched over his shoulder, ready to take him by the throat, whispering in his ear, You are an old man. An… — Eowyn Ivey Doubt Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful, Mabel knew, but it was a beauty that ripped you open and scored you clean so that you were… — Eowyn Ivey Beauty Copy Share Image
“Was it as Ada had suggested, that we can choose our own endings, joy over sorrow? Or does the cruel world just… — Eowyn Ivey Cruel world Copy Share Image
“In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children,… — Eowyn Ivey Age life Copy Share Image
“To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as… — Eowyn Ivey Slipped Copy Share Image
“I think there’s this tendency to lump people together, to think that all people who look like this or come from this… — Eowyn Ivey Think People Copy Share Image
“life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there is no harm… — Eowyn Ivey Children Copy Share Image
“When she first fell in love with Jack, she had dreamed she could fly, that on a warm, inky black night she… — Eowyn Ivey Bare feet Copy Share Image
“Through the night, the black canyon groaned & heaved & gurgled, as if we slept in the belly of a coldblooded beast.… — Eowyn Ivey Groaned Copy Share Image
“But what makes the question of cultural loss the most uncomfortable, and difficult for me to address, are the inherent definitions built… — Eowyn Ivey Loss Copy Share Image
“If you said you didn’t have children, it sounded like a choice, and what kind of craziness would that be? If you… — Eowyn Ivey Children Copy Share Image
“What a tragic tale! Why these stories for children always have to turn out so dreadfully is beyond me. I think if… — Eowyn Ivey Children Copy Share Image
“She could not fathom the hexagonal miracle of snowflakes formed from clouds, crystallized fern and feather that tumble down to light on… — Eowyn Ivey Miracles Copy Share Image
“You did not have to understand miracles to believe in them, and in fact Mabel had begun to suspect the opposite. To… — Eowyn Ivey Inspirational attitude Copy Share Image
“When she had the strength, she began to fold the tiny clothes and blankets and cloth diapers and put them into plain… — Eowyn Ivey Grief Copy Share Image
“Ah, and this is the trouble with a diary. We are allowed to stand too long before its mirror and gaze at… — Eowyn Ivey Too long Copy Share Image
“I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there… — Eowyn Ivey Children Copy Share Image
“Carry me on and on to the edge of the earth, with children's laughter like a wind - full sail, then carry… — Eowyn Ivey Children Copy Share Image
“Makes me see that there might be some sense to having children after all, just so your entire life and all your… — Eowyn Ivey Children Copy Share Image
“It takes a kind of arrogance to think everything in the world can be measured and weighed with our scientific instruments.” — Eowyn Ivey Arrogance Copy Share Image
“And if it is true...that we are each inhabited by some bit of divine light, then upon death, how long before those… — Eowyn Ivey Death Copy Share Image
“She looked directly up into the northern lights and she wondered if those cold-burning spectres might not draw her breath, her very… — Eowyn Ivey Northern lights Copy Share Image
“No. Sometimes these things happen. Life doesn’t go the way we plan or hope, but we don’t have to be so angry,… — Eowyn Ivey Angry Copy Share Image
“Mabel was angry at the injustice of it—that she should have wanted a baby so dearly and be denied one, and that… — Eowyn Ivey Justice Copy Share Image
“nothing is impossible. Take one step, and then another, and see where the path leads. Don’t think of the obstacles, only the… — Eowyn Ivey Adversity Copy Share Image
“As the glow of the cabin windows turned to flickers through the trees and then to black, her eyes adjusted and the… — Eowyn Ivey Trees Copy Share Image
“All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses. It was… — Eowyn Ivey Beautiful writing Copy Share Image
“As Jack's eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, he saw the ground covered in white and, in the light of Garrett"s lantern,… — Eowyn Ivey Snowflakes Copy Share Image
