“A needle is such a small brittle thing. It is easily broken. It can hold but one fragile thread. But if the needle is sharp, it can pierce the coarsest cloth. Ply the needle in and out of a canvas… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle and sacrifice… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“Dr. Tom had said that Texas was the only place he had ever found that, when it killed you, it didn't forget about you.” — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“This history has for so long lived like a spider in my breast. The spider spins and spins, catching memories in its web, threatening… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“If we could see the fullness of our tomorrows, how many of us would take desperate action to change the future? What if our… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“Men are always the last to ken what women know by sniffing the air. That's why God gave bodily might to Adam, to balance… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“I see the world, Sarah, and call it by what I feel it should be, not by what others who in their dull reveries… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“I would move the earth to save your mother. D'ye hear me, Sarah? I would tear down the walls of her jail and carry… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“It's how the English run their courts. They sacrifice innocents, thinking to keep evil at bay, and call it a kind of justice. But… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“There are winter evenings in Massachusetts when there is no wind and the crust on the snow seems to hold in the cold. And… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“We, all of us, must be left alone to make good on our own consciences. And no county magistrate or judge or deacon can… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“I took a step. And then another. And so it went as we followed Father, who had come to take us forever away from… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“He said that some people can live from birth to death and have no more thoughts in their heads about the reasons for living… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“You ask me what makes a woman comely?" He tapped one finger lightly against her temple and said, "Thoughts, missus. It's thoughts that make… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“A scarecrow was a thing of bold-faced tactics, out in the full light of day. A "murmet," the "r" softly rolling against the tongue… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“She was too singular, too outspoken, too defiant against her judges, in defense of her innocence, and it was for this, more than for… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
