French coast to alert them to forecasts of clear weather…

“Johnny’s open mouth. There”

— Helen Bryan

“recalling me to my family responsibilities. You, on the other hand…I could not let such”

— Helen Bryan

“If you wake at Midnight, and hear a horse’s feet, Don’t go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street, Them that asks…

— Helen Bryan

“To be certain of something, he thought, even in the most horrible circumstances, was strangely comforting. Like being in quicksand and suddenly finding a…

— Helen Bryan

“We have much in common, whether Jew, Muslim, or Christian, only God can judge among us. And yet the church sows dissention and bloodshed.”

— Helen Bryan

“I was one of the postwar baby-boom generation”

— Helen Bryan

“Thanne longen folk to go on pilgrimages.”

— Helen Bryan

“sort any more than they’re Alice’s. There’s something so…so wonderfully English about Alice!”

— Helen Bryan

“widowed. Quite the backbone of the village.”

— Helen Bryan

“Oliver was beginning to think too many church rules got in the way of Christianity.”

— Helen Bryan

“They’s talk in the Treme already ’bout kissin’ cousins.”

— Helen Bryan

“say that he had a fortnight’s leave at the end of April. He and Evangeline would go to the coast and have a proper…

— Helen Bryan

“Her exclamation had woken him, so she blurted out what the letter said, then protested shakily”

— Helen Bryan

“it confirmed Mother’s secret conviction that the world had enough trouble without insisting all worship God the same way. There was room before the…

— Helen Bryan

“Hey! How you doin’ this evenin’?”

— Helen Bryan