“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 touch me. I did, too, but when I got out I wasn't me-I was a little… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share Image
“Five actors playing allotted parts on a set stage; and now he, for whom no part had been written, had walked onto the stage unexpectedly, because one of the players had turned rebel, as she had once before. He threw… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Worry and improper thinking are luxuries as dangerous as drink.” — Evangeline Walton Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Only a fool is humiliated by having been weak enough to have to overcome obstacles.” — Evangeline Walton Copy Share Image
