“I am afraid, my dear niece, that a mere woman is something you most certainly are not.”

“Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war.”

“War is a terrible, bloody thing.”

“Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws.”

“The porcelain doll residing in her white-pillared dollhouse was a mirage.”

“Julia Woodhull was many things: a lady of secrets, a patriots niece, and a dead mans daughter. But one thing Julia Woodhull was most certainly not was a fool.”

“It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and fl...”

“Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.”

“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”

“If you want, you can be a child for the rest of your life and be a great LEARNER”

“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time of life tolive without play and fairy tales! We give these ...”

“one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.”

“As the tension between the Protestants and the Church of Rome intensified, so did the desire for a third way among dissenting groups. Soon a new group emerged, though in some senses it was also an ...”

“Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.”

“How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he h...”