Year of Wonders Quotes

There are so few people to do the picking. So few people to do anything. And those of us who are left walk around as if we're half asleep. We are all so tired. (1.1.2)

[Mr. Mompellion] had only laughed and said that even Puritans should recall that pagans, too, are children of God and their stories part of His creation. (1.1.10)

The memories of happiness are fleeting things, reflections in a stream, glimpsed all broken for a second and then swept away in the current of grief that is our life now. (1.1.13)

It did not take him long to give me children. Two sons in three years. Three good years. (1.1.15)

Since then, I've tended so many bodies, people I loved and people I barely knew. But Sam's was the first. (1.1.17)

She pinched her face at this; she was not accustomed to sharing a doorway with servants [...]. Well, times had changed in the Bradfords' absence. (1.1.34)

George Viccars [...] kept his gaze down on the floor, respectfully. Different from all those men who look over you like beef at a saleyard. (2.2.3)

Unlike most ladies, Mrs. Mompellion did not scruple to toil with her hands. (2.2.41)