Top 80 Laura Frantz Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We thank Thee, Lord, for happy hearts, for rain and sunny weather. We thank Thee, Lord for this our food, and that we are together. Amen.”

— Laura Frantz

2. “They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. WILLIAM PENN.”

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3. “What cannot be cured must be endured.”

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4. “I’m no longer your concern.” “You’ve been my concern ever since you were six years old, come to fort up with me. You’re in my blood, Lael – a forever and endurin’ part of me!”

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5. “You’re uncommon tall for a lass.” Surprised, she smiled. “Do you always speak your mind so?” He nodded. “You’ll find I do.” “Anything else?” “Aye,” he replied, coming around the press to close the distance between them. “Do you always court trouble, Miss Click, or does it just seem tae follow you where’er you go?”

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6. “John Andre,” she said, toying with a spoon. “He fell in love with a Philadelphia belle named Peggy Shippen. I merely had the privilege of sewing her dresses.”

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7. “God goes with me. There’s no better escort.”

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8. “Fear was never far away. She’d felt its cold clutch since childhood.”

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9. “Sophie would be the first to share his home. His life. Normalcy. As normal as two broken people could make it. Guilt nagged him that they were coming together on such odd terms. Sophie Menzies deserved far more. He was getting far more than he deserved.”

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10. “War had stolen much, including an appreciation of the seasons.”

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11. “He’d have to keep a careful watch on her once the polemen came ashore. These free-spirited Frenchmen, whom he liked well enough, became absolute devils when drunk, their antics so spectacularly sinful they made his most hardened soldiers blush.”

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12. “You reckon Russell would miss me?” The hope in her words twisted Tempe’s heart. “Oh, he would, but he’d never likely say. Russell holds tight to what hurts.”

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13. “The truth is Fort Endeavor needs you.” Confused, she shifted in her seat, darting a look at him. “I need you,” he amended quietly. “Not just your services as scrivener. I need your goodness and gentleness and strength. Sometimes I think you’re the only one I can trust, even above my own officers.”

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14. “Across the way there lies a wee lass, no’ yet five years old, suffering from a fever. Her name is Sadie Floyd. I want you tae go with me tae see her.”

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15. “What I get fearful about the future, I look back and see how faithful God has been.”

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16. “Morrow... my heart is on the ground.” The simple Shawnee phrase rent her heart. She simply bent her head as he whispered, “Remember how much I love you. Remember love bears all things.”

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17. “She would stay strong. She would remember the promises in Scripture. She would hope and pray and not give away.”

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18. “In the morning, he had to shake her awake. When she saw him leaning over her, shirtless, his dark hair loose and disheveled, her first feeling was one of wonder. She’d dreamed she was asleep atop her feather tick, not the hard ground, and certainly not with a husband. “You’re beautiful awake,” he said with a knowing smile. “But you’re even more beautiful asleep.”

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19. “Of all emotions, jealousy was hardest to stomach.”

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20. “Gardening is the purest human pleasure. Francis Bacon.”

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21. “She could no longer remember what Ambrose looked like, or smelled like, or was like. All she knew was Cassius Clayton McLinn. All she wanted began and ended with him.”

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22. “Time in all its sweet fleetingness seemed to gather round, causing her to impress his beloved features on her heart like flower petals between pages.”

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23. “Mostly I just want my daughter to read. To grow lost in books.”

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24. “One of life’s most painful mysteries was that time moved on, with or without you. Those left behind loved and laughed and resumed living as if you’d never been at all.”

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25. “A voice seemed the very soul of a person. Much could be had by its pitch and tone, it’s peculiar resonance. Like a moccasin print, no two alike, a voice was one’s own unique possession.”

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26. “All she had left was faith. Belief. God Himself.”

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27. “Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul. Benjamin Franklin.”

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28. “You’ve got to get out from under that burden of believing a lie. Folks you care about get cut down, so you stop caring, stop letting folks in.”

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29. “Distance lends enchantment to the view. English proverb.”

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30. “Will you forgive me for the things I said tae you when we last met? Before I went oot and slammed the door?” She looked up at him. “I came here to ask you that very thing.” Only when I saw you, I forgot. “Forgiven, then?” She softened. “You were only trying to warn me, as a friend.” “Aye, as a friend.” “I shouldn’t have sassed you so.” He smiled, or tried to. “But you are so good at it.”

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31. “A heart is a fine thing to have in a cold world.”

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32. “Before she could even step off the porch he was picking her up. “Light as thistledown,” he teased. “’Tis what I suspected.”

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33. “By the power that Christ wrought from heaven, mayst thou love me. As the sun follows its course, mayst thou follow me. As light to the eye, as bread to the hungry, as joy to the heart, may thy presence be with me, oh one that I love, ’til death comes to part us asunder.”

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34. “How many days was it? Two? I could’ve told you that you don’t belong in any schoolroom.” Stung, she stammered, “Wh-where do I belong?” He removed his hat and placed it over his heart, though his eyes remained faintly mocking. “Up on my four hundred, Lael Click. Where else?”

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35. “He sat down on the bed and gathered her up in his arms as if she were a child. Like Abby, she thought woozily. Like Papa had with her so long ago. Weak, she succumbed to the heady scent of him, gave in to the unfamiliar feel of his arms and solidness of his chest as he cradled her.”

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36. “Her heart-her whole heart-turned over in such a poignant rush that all the strength seemed to leave her.”

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37. “No need to get uppity now. There’s just all kinds of talk swirlin’ since Colonel McLinn abandoned his men at maneuvers and come to yo’ cabin like he did. You know what folks are startin’ to call you, don’t you?” She darted a sly look her way. “ ‘The Colonel’s Lady.”

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38. “If I win, you must abstain from all spirits for at least a fortnight. Not a drop.” “Not a drop,” he echoed, eyes warm with amused light. “And if I win?” She gave a little shrug and set down her cup. “Ask for whatever you wish.” He grew thoughtful, all levity gone. “’Tis customary in Ireland for a man to take his pick of any woman present and kiss her as his prize.”

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39. “Law, but ain’t the colonel full of surprises? When he told me to fetch yo’ things cuz he wanted you up here tonight, I was almost as surprised as when he hightailed it out o’ here to carry you back from Smitty’s Fort. I figure he’ll be askin’ to marry you next.”

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40. “A great many belles at the ball will be smiling even if you are not. I simply wish that he did not look so much like a scoundrel.” “Scoundrel?” Elisabeth peered at her maid through the darkness. “That is not how I would describe him.” “No?” Isabeau’s voice pitched. She was all but wringing her hands. “He is – how do you say it? A rascal? A rogue? Swarthy as a buccaneer with his dark looks. Some say he has more gypsy blood than Welsh.”

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41. “To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty. PROVERB.”

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42. “I made a terrible mistake marryin’ Piper. It was you I said my vows to on my weddin’ day – your face was in my mind. And that night ’twas you I – ” “Nay!” She covered his mouth with her hand, unable to hear it, but he only held her tighter. She cried until the front of his linen shirt was damp with her tears, and when she pushed away from him he would not let her go. “There’s never been another like you,” he whispered. “And never will there be.”

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43. “You’re much too lovely – and well dressed – to be sitting alone by the fire, Miss Rowan.”

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44. “Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen. Samuel Johnson.”

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45. “I thought you’d gone.” “I had to turn back.” “Why?” “All that matters is right here.”

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46. “Are you alone?” she asked, glancing around. Never before had she seen him without a half dozen or so other Shawnee. “No. With you,” he said, eyes alight. She smiled, warmed by his teasing.”

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47. “I suppose now is a terrible time to propose,” he told her, suddenly rueful. She looked at him in wonder. Truly, he had no shame, wooing her as he did when he could see she was in a dither. It took all her nerve to return his flirtatious banter and say, “Your timin’ needs work, Simon. But elopin’ might sit better than my quittin’. ” He grimaced. “I doubt it. I’d hate to stare down your pa’s gun barrel once we jumped the broom. Besides, I can’t marry someone I ain’t never courted or even kissed.”

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48. “Sometimes I – I feel caught between the present and the past. Waiting. Hoping.”

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49. “Love won’t be forced.” Nay, it would not. Love would be denied, rebuffed, cut down. Nipped in the bud long before the blossom. But never forced.”

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50. “I don’t think scalpin’ is what Captain Jack has in mind.” Lael looked up. “We’ve seen no sign of him or any of them since the beads and the blanket.” “Oh, you ain’t seen ’em, but they’ve been by all right. Your pa says Shawnee sign crisscrosses your place like a buffalo trace.”

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