Witch Of Blackbird Pond Quotes & Sayings

Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt to read those books. I want to write books with the same power to transport readers into another time and place. — Jennifer Armstrong

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here. — Tupac Shakur

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. — Lauren Tarshis

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

The belfry of St Cloud slowly emitted ten strokes from its broad sonorous jaws. There was something melancholy in that voice of bronze, which thus breathed its lamentations in the night. But each of those sounds, which told the hour he sighed for, vibrated harmoniously in the heart of the young man. — Alexandre Dumas

It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too. — Igor Eliseev

The double row of berths yawned black, like graves tenanted by uneasy corpses. — Joseph Conrad

But old dreams never really died. They were always there, living as regrets for what might have been — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose - to destroy it. — Sergey Nechayev

I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond. — Leni Zumas

Love was a verb with a certain amount of energy attached to it - a daily quota - and you had to choose on whom you wanted to spend this energy. That was love. That was why people had to pray for it. If it were not finite, no one would pine for love in their lives - they would just wait to receive or learn to give. — Alice Pung

Everyone thinks to the extent of their own depravity," #HenriettaLedyanova , #FatefulItalianPassion . — Olga Goa

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted
not my hand held by an old smoothie. — William Safire

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I wanted to go back again, to recapture the moment that had gone, and then it came to me that if we did it would not be the same (...) — Daphne Du Maurier