Tucker," I say. "I'm so glad you're still here."
I throw myself into his arms. He hugs me tightly.
"I couldn't leave," he says.
"I know."
"I mean, literally. I don't have a ride.

Cynthia Hand


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Look closer. The river's its own world of fast and slow, deep and shallow, bright and shadowed. If you look at it like that, like a landscape where the fish live, it'll be easier to catch one.

Cynthia Hand


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You aren't being sent on a mission that you don't have the power to accomplish. You have to find that power inside you somewhere, and you have to refine it. You were made for this purpose...

Cynthia Hand


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Because if it's not her fault, it's God's, and I'm not ready to be pissed at the Almighty.

Cynthia Hand


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What did the fish say when it hit a concrete wall?" he asks me. We're sitting on the bank of a stream and he's tying a fly onto my fishing rod, wearing a cowboy hat and a red lumberjack-style flannel shirt over a gray tee. So adorable.
"What?" I say, wanting to laugh and he hasn't even told me the punch line.
He grins. Unbelievable how gorgeous he is. And that he's mine. He loves me and I love him and how rare and beautiful is that?
"Dam!" he says.

Cynthia Hand


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Clara: "I won't hurt you." Be not afraid.
His eyes flashed with anger like i've come right out and called him chicken.

Cynthia Hand

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You are going to love the sports here. Snow skiing and water-skiing and rock climbing and all kinds of extreme sports. I give you full permission to hurl yourself off stuff.

Cynthia Hand

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I’m flying!”

Of course, I’m not flying so much as coasting over the treetops like a hand glider or a freakishly large flying squirrel.

Cynthia Hand


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I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other chick.

Cynthia Hand


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Tucker: "Today we ran into a mama grizzly with two cubs at the ridge off Colter Bay and Clara sang to it to make it go away."

Mrs. Avery: You sang to it?

Tucker: Her singing is that bad.

Cynthia Hand

Tags: humour singing clara-gardner tucker-avery grizzly



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