Year of Wonders Quotes

Question 1

‘I saw the

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noose go around Anys’s neck and knew they planned to hang her with her own rope’ -Anna Frith

Question 2

‘With so much

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death around us, it was hard to give any mind to the future, much less to those material matters that usually consume a person’s waking hours.’ -Anna Frith

Question 3

“You must school

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your mind and not let your fears be your master.” -Elinor Mompellion

Question 4

“If we are

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spared today, we may well be felled by Plague the morrow.” -Elinor Mompellion

Question 5

‘His pledge that

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none should die alone had become a heavy burden upon him.’ -Anna Frith

Question 6

“His body is

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strong, but I fear that the strength of his will far exceeds it. It can drive him to do what any normal man cannot. Believe me, I have seen this, for better and for worse.” -Elinor Mompellion

Question 7

‘I was glad

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I no longer shared a name with him, as his became increasingly cursed in every croft and cottage.’ -Anna Frith

Question 8

‘Like the ore

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that must be melted all to liquid to find the pure metal, so must we be rendered in the fiery furnace of this disease.’

Question 9

‘We were all

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of us like wounded animals, our hurts so raw and our fear so great that we would lash out at anyone’

Question 10

‘fear, as I

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have said, was working strange changes in all of us, corroding our ability for clear thought.’

Question 11

‘where Michael Mompellion

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had been broken by our shared ordeal, in equal measure I had been tempered and made strong.’