Into the Wilderness Quotes

“Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“She wore her determination like war paint.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“subject for discussion. What terrible messes we get ourselves into when we are silly enough to fall in love,”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“Little girls are kept away from the things that would make them strong, in the name of protection and propriety.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“You scare one stupid man, he’ll most likely run off. But a crowd of stupid men—there ain’t nothing more dangerous, or meaner.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“The more she thought about it, the more confused she became: each of them told the story with complete conviction. In the end, she thought, perhaps they were all right. The stories of what had happened to each of them in those bloody days of the revolution were a web they wove together; the truth scuttled back and forth between the delicate strands of memory, and could not be pinned down.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“The thrill of telling her true feelings without considering good manners or the propriety of what she had to say was intoxicating.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“Very slowly Elizabeth leaned forward until her forehead rested on his shoulder, shuddering with pleasure and relief at the feel of him, at his smell.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“My father,” said Elizabeth, “is made of the same fabric as my uncle Merriweather and every other Englishman I’ve ever come across. He cannot see my point, because he cannot see me. Do you realize that, Curiosity? He sees me as a—commodity. The person I am, that person is invisible to him.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“You call yourself teacher, and summon children to you. White children, and black, and Kahnyen’kehàka. But we ask, what do you have to offer our children? You cannot make a moccasin or skin a deer. You cannot cure hides. You know nothing of the crops, how to plant or tend them. You cannot turn your hand to hunting, or show them how to track. You do not know the names of the moons or the seasons, or of the spirits who direct them. Of medicines you know nothing. And yet you call Kahnyen’kehàka children to your school. You will teach them to read and write your language. You will teach them of your wars and your gods. You can teach them only to be white.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“Love is the noblest frailty of the mind,”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“Well, short of it is—” He held up a palm to stop protests from the younger Schuylers. “I got him back down to our camp near the lake, and we found him a doctor, a woman tending the wounded.” “A doctor or a woman?” “Both,” said Nathaniel. “A woman surgeon?” asked Elizabeth, confused. “The White Witch,” said Runs-from-Bears. “I’ve heard tell of her.” “And so has every soldier who set foot on that battlefield,” agreed Mr. Schuyler. “A Kahnyen’kehàka healer?” Elizabeth was curious enough to risk the displeasure of the rest of the audience with another question. Nathaniel shook his head. “No, a white woman, and English by the sound of her. Ian fetched her, and then it turned out she was his Auntie Claire. Brought her into camp just when I was thinking we couldn’t do much for the boy. And she hunkers down next to him and listens to his chest and then she forces something down his gullet, and she bundles him up. The thing to see, though, was the way he settled down when he heard her voice, talking low”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“All women are alike when they fear for their children,”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“The other white man was a Scot,” said Nathaniel. “Married into the tribe, by the name Ian Murray”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“But the Lord had other plans,” Curiosity said. “And he didn’t see fit to lift the yoke.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“Happy unions cannot take root under such a cloud of deception and artifice.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“If you were truly concerned for me, it would matter to you what I want for myself. But it is only what you want for me—from me—that concerns you.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“White, black, or red. I expect even the yellow men ain’t much different. All made by the same God.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“I got him back down to our camp near the lake, and we found him a doctor, a woman tending the wounded.” “A doctor or a woman?” “Both,” said Nathaniel. “A woman surgeon?” asked Elizabeth, confused. “The White Witch,” said Runs-from-Bears. “I’ve heard tell of her.”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness

“molasses,”
― Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness