Jim David

“Tell your children your mother was a woman who, with all her multitude of shortcomings, was more ferocious than kind, more contentious than agreeable, more irate than placid; but who cherished her family above all else.”
― Kathleen Kent, The Wolves of Andover

“This history has for so long lived like a spider in my breast. The spider spins and spins, catching memories in its web, threatening to devour every final happiness. With this letter I hope to sweep away the terror and the sadness and to have my heart made pure again by God's grace.”
― Kathleen Kent, The Traitor's Wife

“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 spoke of murmuring stealth, as though it hunted marauding crows in the dark of twilight.”
― Kathleen Kent, The Heretic's Daughter

“I see the world, Sarah, and call it by what I feel it should be, not by what others who in their dull reveries think it is.”
― Kathleen Kent, The Heretic's Daughter