Karen Witemeyer said this quote

Dear God, I don't want my fear to be a barrier to the blessings you are trying to bestow. Cast out my fear, and help me to trust your perfect love. But also grant me a full measure of wisdom. Do not let me be led astray by my own desires. If it is not your will that I pursue a relationship with Levi, I pray that you will stop me. Make your message so clear that I cannot argue it away. Protect me, Lord, and show me the way I should go.

~ Karen Witemeyer

He unlaced his arms and took a step forward. You hurt?Not badly. She tried to smile, but her lips only curved on one side. My main problem is that I'm stuck to a cactus.(...)How'd you manage to get tangled up with a cactus? J.T. crouched beside her and started extricating her from the prickly plant.Well, believe it or not, I was on my way to apologize to you when a prairie-dog hole jumped up and grabbed my shoe heel.

~ Karen Witemeyer

Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team.

~ Karen Witemeyer

Levi's gaze sought out Miss Spencer. Eden. All she had to do was smile to release those little frissons of lightning in him. As that thought crossed his mind, she glanced up, and Levi realized he was wrong. She didn't have to smile. All she had to do was look at him. Heaven help him. He was in bad.

~ Karen Witemeyer