“Even then his thoughts did not turn to prayer but to Abbie and to what she would think about his lack of prayerfulness and that surely she would have immediately broken out in prayer. Doesnt matter...”

“It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before. ~Katherine Demure”

“These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a ladys thingshairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he ...”

“And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention womens rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution...”

“I can see how your mother would have a point. Having a debate with a politically minded woman can be intriguing and even entertaining but to share a house with her and have her always campaigning a...”

“I just want to make sure Mama. Sometimes I dont even know what I want. A lot of times Im just tired. Mama reached up and smoothed Lizas curls away from her face. Well darlin, thats the sign of a li...”

“Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.”

“Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdycommon sense of a burgher-class in the making.”

“You see the world in colors,I see in Black and Red.”

“These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a ladys thingshairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he ...”