Eowyn Ivey

“We feel that”

— Eowyn Ivey

“A boy trying out a man's language.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“...each of us is alive only by a small thread.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“..she expected to drown before she reached it.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“Why do we insist on inflicting more suffering on a world that is already fraught with it?”

— Eowyn Ivey

“You’ll drive yourself crazy looking for something that’s not there.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“We are allowed to do that, are we not Mabel? To invent our own endings and choose joy over sorrow?”

— Eowyn Ivey

“When she first fell in love with Jack, she dreamed she could fly...”

— Eowyn Ivey

“He put one foot in front of the other and walked without seeing or feeling.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“Why, in our efforts to understand and observe life, must we so often snuff it out?”

— Eowyn Ivey

“It’s humanity. We’re complicated and messy and beautiful.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“She knew the snow and it carried her gently... She knew the land by heart.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“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

“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

“Carry me on and on to the edge of the earth, with children's laughter like a wind - full sail, then carry…

— Eowyn Ivey

“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

“Makes me see that there might be some sense to having children after all, just so your entire life and all your…

— Eowyn Ivey

“It takes a kind of arrogance to think everything in the world can be measured and weighed with our scientific instruments.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“There is the feeling here that civilization is still just a speck, and it makes me feel small in a good way.…

— Eowyn Ivey

“In my old age, I see that life is often more fantastic and terrible than stories we believed as children, and that…

— Eowyn Ivey

“She could not fathom the hexagonal miracle of snowflakes formed from clouds, crystallized fern and feather that tumble down to light on…

— Eowyn Ivey

“What a tragic tale! Why these stories for children always have to turn out so dreadfully is beyond me. I think if…

— Eowyn Ivey

“You did not have to understand miracles to believe in them, and in fact Mabel had begun to suspect the opposite. To…

— Eowyn Ivey

“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

“When she had the strength, she began to fold the tiny clothes and blankets and cloth diapers and put them into plain…

— Eowyn Ivey

“Who would think than an adolescent boy would have anything to teach an old woman? But it was Garrett who had led…

— Eowyn Ivey

“As the glow of the cabin windows turned to flickers through the trees and then to black, her eyes adjusted and the…

— Eowyn Ivey

“For en tragisk historie! Jeg fatter ikke hvorfor slike eventyr for barn alltid må ende med forferdelse. Jeg tror at hvis jeg…

— Eowyn Ivey

“All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“I guess maybe I don't want to be warm and safe. I want to live.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“Like a rainbow trout in a stream, the girl sometimes flashed her true self to him.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“Why was it always the woman's fate to pace and fret and wait?”

— Eowyn Ivey

“She and Jack had formed her of snow and birch boughs and frosty wild grass.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“You start seeing things that you’re afraid of… or things you’ve always wished for.”

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“All those sounds of her failure and regret would be left behind, and in their place there would be silence.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“She might be curt and ungrateful, but by God she could bake.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“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

“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

“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

“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