“Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when she looked she saw that a black scaly tail, tufted with flame at the end, like a fiend's, had switched across her and… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share Image
“Quincy laughed. "If I were Elizabeth I shouldn't thank either of you for that comforting diagnosis. Would it do any good to open Aunt Sarai's grave and drive a stake through her? If you believe in as much sorcery as… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share Image
“He asked, looking at her dark-rimmed eyes, "You do not sleep?" She shivered. "No. I do not want to sleep any more. I sleep… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share
“Outside the drizzling rain had begun again. It pattered around the house, and on the roofs and eaves, like a million, tiny, stealthy feet:… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share
“Are these black cats like the hare?" "No. They're smaller; they only want me to play with them. Fly away with them to a… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share
“There's only one force that's strong enough to conquer those in Witch House, and you know how to manipulate it; you turned one current… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share
“The doctor from the mainland came and went. Silence settled over the island again, like a displaced curtain falling back in thickened, heavier folds.… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share
“Yet woman, though she ceased to be a king* and man protected her, was still reverenced as the source of life. Only now when… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share
“For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird.” — Evangeline Walton Copy Share
“Only a fool is humiliated by having been weak enough to have to overcome obstacles.” — Evangeline Walton Copy Share
“It was so awful! And he kept on looking at me and I knew I must get out of bed or he'd come and… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share
“Five actors playing allotted parts on a set stage; and now he, for whom no part had been written, had walked onto the stage… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share
“Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when she looked she saw that a black… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share
