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1. "She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read." ~ Elizabeth George Speare

2. "What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree..." ~ Elizabeth George Speare

3. "AS THE heavy door shut behind him the cloud gradually lifted from the room. Rachel moved nervously to the table and began to wrap the leftover corn bread in a clean linen napkin. "Before I do another thing," she said, "I must take this to Widow Brown. She's still far too weak to fend for herself. Forgive me for leaving you, Katherine, but I'll be back in no time at all." "In no time," echoed Judith bitterly, as her mother hurried out into the foggy morning. "Just as soon as she's built up the fire and made gruel and tidied the whole cabin. With more than a day's work waiting here at home." ~ Elizabeth George Speare

4. "I'm sure they would," said Mercy promptly. "Besides, that's not the point. You'll give Kit a fine impression of us, Judith, and anyway, we'd better start on the work that's waiting right here." Judith did not move. Her attention had turned again to the row of trunks. "Do you mean to say that every one of those trunks is full of dresses like the one you have on?" ~ Elizabeth George Speare

5. "The two boys stood and looked at each other. There was no amusement and no scorn in Attean's eyes. How very strange, Matt thought. After all the brave deeds he had dreamed of doing to win this boy's respect, he had gained it at last by doing nothing, just by staying here and refusing to leave." ~ Elizabeth George Speare

6. "the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out." ~ Elizabeth George Speare

7. "All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps." ~ Elizabeth George Speare

8. "Daniel, he said. I would have you follow me.Master!....I will fight for you to the end!.My loyal friend, he said, I would ask something much harder than that. Would you love for me to the end?...I don't understand, he said again, You tell people about the kingdom. Are we not to fight for it?The kingdom is only bought at a great price, Jesus said. There was one who came just yesterday and wanted to follow me. He was very rich, and when I asked him to give up his wealth, he went away.I will give you everything I have!....Riches are not keeping you from the kingdom, he said. You must give up your hate." ~ Elizabeth George Speare

9. "From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own." ~ Elizabeth George Speare

10. "The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him" ~ Elizabeth George Speare

11. "How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!" ~ Elizabeth George Speare

12. "That lame man you saw-- is he grateful now? Is it worth it to get on his feet and spend the rest of his life dragging burdens like a mule? . . . It's not much of a world, is it? Is it worth trying to bring Leah back into it?"Thacia stood still in the road. "Oh, Daniel-- yes! If only I could make you see, somehow, that it is!""All this--" she exclaimed, the sweep of her arm including the deepening blue of the sky, the shining lake in the distance, the snow-covered mountain far to the north. "So much! You must look at it all, Daniel, not just at the unhappy things." ~ Elizabeth George Speare

13. "...of the few young men and boys at the fort, now that she was too old for racing and climbing trees with them, she felt both shy and critical..." ~ Elizabeth George Speare

14. "No, I have not asked Jesus to join us. All I hope and long for now is that he will ask me to join him." ~ Elizabeth George Speare

15. "Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?"Kit giggled. "Are you saying I've turned into a crow?""Not exactly." His eyes were intensely blue with merriment. "I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?" ~ Elizabeth George Speare

16. "Hannah's magic cure for every ill," he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten." ~ Elizabeth George Speare

17. "I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Every hope of the future is meaningless unless I have faith that you and I will share it together." ~ Elizabeth George Speare

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The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived according to the dictates of the insulated self. It is nature denatured by the distorting spectacles of our appetites and revulsions. It is the finite divorced from the Eternal. It is multiplicity in isolation from its non-dual Ground. It is time apprehended as one damned thing after another. It is a system of verbal categories taking the place of the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars which constitute reality. It is a notion labelled 'God'. It is the Universe equated with the words of our utilitarian vocabulary."
Author: Aldous Huxley