“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
“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 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
