“ I feel safer when you're here. You're so big and sturdy, like a beautiful tree I can lean on and not knock over. Karen Cushman
“ It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and opinions, you won't have room for your own. Karen Cushman
“ . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night. Karen Cushman
“ Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face! Karen Cushman
“ 19TH DAY OF OCTOBER, Feast of Saint Frideswide, virgin, though why that should make someone a saint I do not know Karen Cushman
“ . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can. Karen Cushman
“ Non che non creda in Dio. Ci credo. Solo non sono sicura di credere nel Paradiso, almeno non quanto credo nella biblioteca pubblica. Karen Cushman
“ I am commanded to write an account of my days: I am bit by fleas and plagued by family. That is all there is to say. Karen Cushman
“ My mother makes the best cider in Lincolnshire. She swears it is because she always includes a number of rotten apples in the mix. I was wondering if this could be true of people - if the world needs… Karen Cushman
“ She was not as stupid as some I have had, and better company, but still perhaps her going was for the best. She was not what I needed.Because I failed, whispered Alyce in the shadows.Because she gave… Karen Cushman
“ More lady-lessons. It is impossible to do all and be all a lady must be and not tie oneself in a knot. A lady must walk erect with dignity, looking straight before her with eyelids low, gazing at the… Karen Cushman
