Heather B. Moore > Quotes

“Unless I confess to a crime that I did not commit, I will be sentenced to death. The irony does not escape me. Lying before God will buy my freedom among men.”
― Heather B. Moore, Condemn Me Not: Accused of Witchcraft

“Fear drives men and women to do mad things.”
― Heather B. Moore, Condemn Me Not: Accused of Witchcraft

“The loss of a child to a mother can be felt all the way to the heavens”
― Heather B. Moore, Condemn Me Not: Accused of Witchcraft

“Here she was, walking through the newly built Chinatown, which held the same secrets, the same depravity, the same lost souls...yet light had crept in and taken hold. The Chinese people were taking a stand against the corruption that had plagued their corner of the world. It was then that Dolly knew slavery would come to an end. Not that day, or that year. But the tong were outnumbered. The slave girls no longer feared Fahn Quai. p. 343”
― Heather B. Moore, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown

“What trials are we meant to endure in this life? And how did the trials of regular life escalate to this horror? I wonder if there is so much a soul can endure before death seems the better option.”
― Heather B. Moore, Condemn Me Not: Accused of Witchcraft

“Now that she wasn't Tai Choi anymore, surely she had the freedom to let the qualities she liked represent her new self - strong, brave, and independent.
Tien Fu Wu Heavenly Blessing. Godsend.”
― Heather B. Moore, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown: Adapted for Young Readers

“She wouldn't want to go back to being owned by any himan being. She was not a thing. She was not propriety. No one was”
― Heather B. Moore, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown: Adapted for Young Readers

“The helpless have no chance for justice in this city. - Officer Jesse Cook, p. 23”
― Heather B. Moore, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown

“Sometimes the most joyful moments for one person brought on deep pain for another.”
― Heather B. Moore, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown

“In chinese, Tien Fu means Heavenly Blessing, like a godsend. Ironically, this new given name that the highbinder had brutally forced Tai Choi to take almost fell like a gracious gift, a congenial compliment.”
― Heather B. Moore, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown: Adapted for Young Readers

“Now that she wasn't Tai Choi anymore, surely she had the freedom to let the qualities she liked represent her new self - strong, brave, and independent.
Tien Fu Wu Heavenly Blessing. Godsend”
― Heather B. Moore