Katherine's Journal Quotes

“I can see how your mother would have a point. Having a debate with a politically minded woman can be intriguing and even entertaining but to share a house with her and have her always campaigning and protesting at the dinner table,” he slanted his gaze down toward me. “That could be very tiring indeed.”
― Gwenn Wright, Katherine's Journal

“And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well.”
― Gwenn Wright, Katherine's Journal

“These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady’s things—hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.”
― Gwenn Wright, Katherine's Journal

“It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before.
~Katherine Demure”
― Gwenn Wright, Katherine's Journal

“I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate was sealed at the sight of your stockinged feet.
~Viktor von Strassenberg”
― Gwenn Wright, Katherine's Journal

“I just want to make sure Mama. Sometimes I don’t even know what I want. A lot of times I’m just tired.”
Mama reached up and smoothed Liza’s curls away from her face. “Well darlin’, that’s the sign of a life being lived. I think we’re all tired when we’re giving it our best.”
― Gwenn Wright, Katherine's Journal

“Even then his thoughts did not turn to prayer but to Abbie and to what she would think about his lack of prayerfulness and that surely she would have immediately broken out in prayer. “Doesn’t matter now,” he whispered and felt that he could not cry out to God.
~William Drexler the Third”
― Gwenn Wright, Katherine's Journal