Head In The Clouds Quotes
"Not all marriages were based on a grand passion. She and Henry shared something much more likely to last: common interests and mutual respect."
"I've come about the advertisement in the Gazette. I wish to apply for the governess position."
"The Bible taught that truth set a person free, but Adelaide had never felt more trapped."
"The happy ending she’d longed for was within her grasp. She’d not let a little distance or a hesitant suitor steal it from her."
"The grandest adventure of her life waited on the other side of these tracks."
"She might not have found Mr. Heroic, but Mr. Satisfactory would do just fine."
"If she managed to land this job, all the credit would certainly go to the Almighty."
"The truth is not nearly as noble as I tried to make it sound. The reminder is actually more physical than philosophical."
"She had waited years for a hero to walk out of the well-worn pages of the books she read by lantern light and capture her heart. But he never came."
"The Lord is good unto them that wait for him."
"I sure did. My daddy didn’t raise no hothouse flower, you know."
"Between me plowing him with a pitchfork and you beating the stuffing out of him, his pride is probably more tattered than my dress."
"I screamed whenever I could find the breath and prayed for someone to come. I prayed for you."
"I discovered a passion for children, and working with them seemed to fill part of the emptiness inside."
"My father died when I was sixteen, and ever since then, I’ve longed to replace the family I lost."
"The shameful truth is, I was so desperate to make my dream of family a reality that I chased the first thing in pants that showed some interest in me."
"Bella has improved more under your care in the short time you’ve been here than I dared hope. We need you."
"There’s nothing wrong with your past! That Henry fellow was an unscrupulous lout that toyed with your affections to serve his own ends."
"I’m not feeling well today, how about we let the men handle the shearing without us?"
"At least he ruined a dress I no longer care for."
"I also had the honor of meeting his wife and child. Not quite the reunion I had envisioned."
"My two years were nearly complete when I met Henry."
"He acted so devastated about not seeing me again that I made a rash plan."
"I don’t think I ever really was [in love with him]."
"I rather liked her cloud resting over Westcott Cottage. She wasn’t ready for God to move her on just yet."
"As far as Bella is concerned, there is no one better than you."
"She’s brought me enough bad memories."
"A man like Bevin would assume other gentlemen subscribed to similar values as he himself did. Integrity. Honesty."
"God was worthy of her trust. Adelaide believed that with all her heart."
"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved."
"Christ never promised that his people wouldn’t suffer. What he did promise was to be with them."
"I know I have to leave this in your hands, Adelaide prayed, but I beg you to protect this child. Please."
"Surely no natural mother could love a child more deeply than Adelaide did Isabella."
"She was too young to do anything about the situation, so Adelaide reestablished their educational routine."
"God, I won’t argue against your taking me on to glory, but I need you to hold off for a little while."
"If God would just show her how to keep the fool man alive, she would love and cherish him for the rest of her days."
"Hope was the only weapon at her disposal, and she wasn’t about to surrender it."
"All for thee my heart is yearning, all through the night."
"Though sad fate our lives may sever, parting will not last forever, there’s a hope that leaves me never, all through the night."
"Love, to thee my thoughts are turning all through the night."
"I’m not like you, Farnsworth. I don’t abandon my purpose at the first sign of adversity. I persevere."
"I love you, Adelaide Proctor. With all my heart."
"I expect you to fight for me, Gideon Westcott."
"I signed up to be a wife, not a widow, and I demand a happy ending to our story."
"You can’t in good conscience marry them, Kent. She obviously doesn’t know the truth about his condition."
"Dear God, you made Papa Gidyon a little better, but his hurts are still there. Did you forget to take them away? I’ll keep ’minding you till they’re all gone."
"I want to run, too, but Izzy’s with us, and we have to look out for her."
"I had a feeling you’d say something like that."
"You already battled a dragon, rescued two damsels in distress, and married the fair maiden who had fallen desperately in love with you."
"God’s way might not always be clear, but it could always be trusted."