“If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle… — Kathleen Kent Greater good 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… — Kathleen Kent Fiction-novel 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… — Kathleen Kent God 's grace 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… — Kathleen Kent Time 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,… — 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… — Kathleen Kent Truth 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… — Kathleen Kent Mother 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… — Kathleen Kent Justice 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… — Kathleen Kent Nature 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… — Kathleen Kent Ethics 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… — Kathleen Kent Children 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… — Kathleen Kent Death 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… — 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… — 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… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“It's hard to imagine, seeing how crowded the sky looks tonight, how far away one star is from another. Like, people, really.… — Kathleen Kent Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Can you keep a secret, Sarah?" she asked. I nodded, remembering all our secrets shared together in her mother's house, and she… — Kathleen Kent Parenting Copy Share Image
“But guilt is a ghost that takes the shape of the body it inhabits and consumes all that is tender within its… — Kathleen Kent Regret Copy Share Image
“Oh fer Christ's bloody sake Martha I didna' raise ye to be well regarded. To be liked. Any puny weak-waisted slut can… — Kathleen Kent Parenting Copy Share Image
“There is no death in remembrance. Remember me, Sarah. Remember me, and a part of me will always be with you." -… — Kathleen Kent Children Copy Share Image
“I see the world...and call it by what I feel it should be, not by what others who in their dull reveries… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
“It's hard to imagine, seeing how crowded the sky looks tonight, how far away one star is from another. Like people, really.… — Kathleen Kent Astronomy Copy Share Image
“...with every step I thought of my mother's courage as she faced her judges. With every step I thought of her cleaving… — Kathleen Kent Children Copy Share Image
“But a child, so recently come into the world from the void of creation, can be more resilient than the strongest man,… — Kathleen Kent Children Copy Share Image
“A needle is such a small brittle thing. It is easily broken. It can hold but one fragile thread. But if the… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
