Year of Wonders Quotes Flashcards
Society (Anna)
“so few people to do anything”
Society (Anna)
“A life in the dark. And a death there, too”
Society (Anna)
“We are always tilting forwards to toil uphill, or bracing backwards on our heels to slow a swift descent”
Society (Anna)
“times had changed in the Bradford’s absence”
Society (Anna)
“an absence is as obvious as a missing tooth”
Society (Anna)
“Now our voices were so many fewer”
Women (Anna)
“I was always a pair of hands before I was a person, someone to toil after her babies”
Women (Anna)
“I had always had admiration for Anys”
Women (Anna)
“skilled with plants”
Women (Anna)
“there were few women who would do without her [Anys] in the birthing room”
Women (Anys)
“I’m not made to be any man’s chattel… I have something very few women can claim: my freedom.”
Women (Anna)
“mother hands”
“mother courage”
Nature (Anna)
“It [nature] has taken less than a year to begin to reclaim its place”
Nature (Anna)
“others are so brimful of endings that they cannot bear to wrench even a scrawny sapling from its tenuous grip on life”
Blame, victimisation, responsibility
“seeds of the Plague”
Blame, victimisation, responsibility (Mompellion)
“face it where one was, with courage, and thus contain its evil.”
Blame, victimisation, responsibility (Lib)
“‘Anys Gowdies’s raised the dead! It’s her that’s the witch!”
Blame, victimisation, responsibility (Anna)
“those who have most give least”
Blame, victimisation, responsibility
“I will not lose another soul”
Blame, victimisation, responsibility (Anna)
“great sacrifice that we made here”
Human behaviour
“Your hands have been uncommonly greedy”
Human behaviour
“grave-digger to the desperate”
Human behaviour (Joss)
“You bleed us dry, you do”
Human behaviour
“cost of his justice”
