“Sharing secrets is the way in which women tie themselves together, for it reveals complicity and trust. Holding secrets shows trustworthiness and a sort of quite defiance. It is a natural thing for a female to hold secrets within her… — 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 far seeing showed us the loss of our homes, our families, our very lives, and to save it all we would need only to barter away our most precious souls. Who among us would give up… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share
“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 Salem. And with every step I thought of my mother's courage as she faced her judges. With every step I thought of her cleaving to the truth even as she fell the short distance of the… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share
“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
