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The Call of the East: A Romance of Far Formosa

1914

Unknown

The Call of the East: A Romance of Far Formosa

The Call of the East: A Romance of Far Formosa

Unknown

1914

Novels, Romance

A ship cleaves through eastern waters in 1884, carrying the seeds of empire and the sparks of forbidden attraction. When the spirited Miss MacAllister collapses from seasickness aboard the Hailoong, she expects sympathy from her fellow passengers - not the cool, impossibly composed Dr. Sinclair, a Canadian physician whose dry wit matches her own. Their first encounter crackles with tension: she resents his detachment, he seems amused by her fire. But as a typhoon bears down on the ship and the fragile veneer of Western civilization shatters, both must confront what survival truly requires. Set against the Franco-Chinese War, this forgotten romance explores the dangerous territory between cultures - and between two people who discover that the call of the East might drown out everything they thought they knew about themselves.

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“Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only... Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for, even if that search took a lifetime.””

— Unknown

“That's the trouble, I can't forget him. He was everything to me, except mine.””

— Unknown

“Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.””

— Unknown

“The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.””

— Unknown

“Was it love of people?' I asked her.'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love these things. One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people.””

— Unknown

“Love doesn't adhere to time and boundaries does it? It just is.””

— Unknown

“Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all.””

— Unknown

“Circumstances bring people together, and take them apart. One cannot keep up with everyone in a lifetime.””

— Unknown

“Questions, questions – you wear me out with your questions, child. Find out for yourself – we all have to in the end. No one can give you faith. It is a gift from God alone. Seek and ye shall find. Read the Gospels. There is no other way. Do not pester me with your everlasting questions. Go with God, child; just go with God.””

— Unknown

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