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Across the Great Barrier (Frontier Magic, #2) Across the Great Barrier by Patricia C. Wrede
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“You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.”
Patricia C. Wrede, Across the Great Barrier
“Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.”
Patricia C. Wrede, Across the Great Barrier
“Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.”
Patricia C. Wrede, Across the Great Barrier
“No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can't help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you're their first good meal since last fall.”
Patricia C. Wrede, Across the Great Barrier
“William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of the time he didn't say much. But when he was curious about something, he was stubborner than a bear after a honeycomb.”
Patricia C. Wrede, Across the Great Barrier
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“Starting is good. You can’t get anywhere at all if you never start.”
Patricia C. Wrede, Across the Great Barrier
“Winter was usually the slow season at the menagerie, with so many of the animals hibernating, but that year I was busier than a hen with a double set of chicks.”
Patricia C. Wrede, Across the Great Barrier
“Early in August, Lan came and found me down at the creek. It was a Sunday afternoon and so hot that even the mosquitoes were drowsing instead of biting people.”
Patricia C. Wrede, Across the Great Barrier