“I guess maybe I don't want to be warm and safe. I want to live.” — Eowyn Ivey Dying Copy Share Image
“All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses.” — Eowyn Ivey Life Copy Share Image
“She knew the snow and it carried her gently... She knew the land by heart.” — Eowyn Ivey Knew Snow Copy Share Image
“It’s humanity. We’re complicated and messy and beautiful.” — Eowyn Ivey Complicated 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
“Like a rainbow trout in a stream, the girl sometimes flashed her true self to him.” — Eowyn Ivey Rainbows Copy Share Image
“When she first fell in love with Jack, she dreamed she could fly...” — Eowyn Ivey Dreamed Copy Share Image
“You’ll drive yourself crazy looking for something that’s not there.” — Eowyn Ivey Crazy Copy Share Image
“...the child's arms around her, hugging her as a daughter hugs her mother. Joyfully. Spontaneously. The most beautiful of all. The most… — Eowyn Ivey Children Copy Share Image
“There are so many other labels people like to assign. Where am I an insider, and where am I an outsider? It… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“we can choose our own endings, joy over sorrow? Or does the cruel world just give and take, give and take, while… — Eowyn Ivey Choose 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
“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
“In my old age, I see that life is often more fantastic and terrible than stories we believed as children, and that… — Eowyn Ivey Children Copy Share Image
“No warm blood in me doth glow Water in my veins doth flow Yet I'll laugh and sing and play By frosty… — Eowyn Ivey Children Copy Share Image
“As she began to peel potatoes, he stood behind her and touched the tendrils of hair that had fallen from their clips… — Eowyn Ivey Fresh air Copy Share Image
“We never know what is going to happen, do we? Life is always throwing us this way and that. That’s where the… — Eowyn Ivey Adventure 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
“...did fear drive her? Fear of the gray, not just in the strands of her hair and her wilting cheeks, but the… — Eowyn Ivey Dreams Copy Share Image
“She had thought often of Ada's words about inventing new endings to stories and choosing joy over sorrow. In recent years she… — Eowyn Ivey Death and loss Copy Share Image
“Even as a boy Jack had loved the smell of the ground softening in the thaw and coming back to life. Not… — Eowyn Ivey Life Copy Share Image
“She had watched other women with infants and eventually understood what she craved: the boundless permission-no, the absolute necessity- to hold and… — Eowyn Ivey Love Copy Share Image
“Why do we insist on inflicting more suffering on a world that is already fraught with it?” — Eowyn Ivey Suffering Copy Share Image
“He put one foot in front of the other and walked without seeing or feeling.” — Eowyn Ivey Foot Copy Share Image
“You start seeing things that you’re afraid of… or things you’ve always wished for.” — Eowyn Ivey Afraid Copy Share Image
“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
“There is the feeling here that civilization is still just a speck, and it makes me feel small in a good way.… — Eowyn Ivey Feeling Copy Share Image
“We say we worship. A word. A man-god. A fiery mountain. But we worship only ourselves. And we are jealous gods.” — Eowyn Ivey Jealous Gods 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
“Don't you see? This was to be ours together, the successes and the failures...All of this? he said, and couldn't help a… — Eowyn Ivey Failure Copy Share Image
“Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that,… — Eowyn Ivey Husband Copy Share Image
