“Like a rainbow trout in a stream, the girl sometimes flashed her true self to him.” — Eowyn Ivey Rainbows Copy Share Image
“It would be a hard life, but it would be theirs alone. Here at the world's edge, far from everything familiar and… — Eowyn Ivey Hard life 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 Copy Share Image
“For en tragisk historie! Jeg fatter ikke hvorfor slike eventyr for barn alltid må ende med forferdelse. Jeg tror at hvis jeg… — Eowyn Ivey 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
“And yet, what Ada had written about joy was entirely true. When she stands before you with her long, naked limbs and… — Eowyn Ivey Joy 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 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
“As Jack knelt in the bloody snow, he wondered if that was how a man held up his end of the bargain,… — 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 Cruel world Copy Share Image
“that day I was filled with more love than I ever could have imagined. And when my hands grew cold, you didn’t… — Eowyn Ivey Love Copy Share Image
“Who would think than an adolescent boy would have anything to teach an old woman? But it was Garrett who had led… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“It’s humanity. We’re complicated and messy and beautiful.” — Eowyn Ivey Nature of man Copy Share Image
“When she slowly straightened, the land was vast before her. The sun was setting down the river, casting a cold pink hue… — Eowyn Ivey 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
“I don’t know why, precisely. I believe we were in need of a change. We needed to do things for ourselves. Does… — Eowyn Ivey Change 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
“He would not look away. Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and contrast… — Eowyn Ivey 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
“He thought Mabel would cry, and he wanted to be anywhere else. It was wrong and cowardly, and he'd done it before--when… — Eowyn Ivey 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
“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
“Life is always throwing us this way and that. That’s where the adventure is. Not knowing where you’ll end up or how… — Eowyn Ivey Adventure Copy Share Image
