Quotes from Katherine Howe

For the first time, really, since beginning her PhD program, Connie felt secure. Validated.

She never noticed that after Arlo entered her life, her nightmares about replicating vermin disappeared.

We're here to talk about the safety of teenage girls, Father Molloy. Or isn't the church concerned with that anymore?

Joan of Arc was their patron saint, and I heard that they died out in part because girls were required to join by the time they were fifteen.

belonged to an order that flickered out of existence sometime early in the twentieth century.

Betty," I say, shaking her shoulder. "What?" she moans. "Leave me be. I'm bewitched. It makes me tired.

It's possible that they had a slight allergic reaction to a preservative in the vaccine.

I didn't like to hurt the children anymore, so I said, 'I will serve you no longer.' Then all of a sudden he looks like a man and threatens to hurt me. When he was like a man, he had a yellow bird he kept with him, and he told me he had more pretty things that he would give me if I would serve him.

It would appear that we are nearly out of time," Janine Silva said, eying her vintage Spiro Agnew wristwatch....

For if any adversity, grief, or sickness, or loss of children, corn, cattle, or liberty happen unto them, by and by they exclaim upon witches.