Amy

“The Salem witch trials have long been seen as the last manifestation of backward-looking Puritanism. So they were. But rage, bitterness, and envy produced by deep loss, on many levels including the individual and familial as well as the social and national, had fueled and attracted the murderous hostility.”
― Francis Hill

“But ignorance is not bliss, only a deeper kind of terror.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

“It seemed she was a real person after all, a solid human being, moving in and out of the orbits of others. No matter that she so often felt herself to be living half a life, to be a half-light.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind