“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.”

— Elizabeth George Speare, book The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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American writer 1908–1994

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