“He didn’t come there searching for her. She hadn’t sat there waiting for him. Time placed them there, and it was time that kept them apart.”

“Only one person knew about the three of them going into the cave, and as it would be, she never dared to speak about it.”

“Don’t worry, mama. He’s a Hanson. He’ll be just fine.”

“She had a small chin, full lips, a nose with scattered freckles, and the same eyes of the forest floor that she had seen only a few months prior.”

“With hair down to your ass, eyes like silver coins, and a jaw like that, I might think you were born a woman, for lack of a better word.”