All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.

How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!

All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.

I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Every hope of the future is meaningless unless I have faith that you and I will share it together.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him