
“If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.”
Source: A&P: Lust in the Aisles
Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince
“If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.”
Source: A&P: Lust in the Aisles
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88
Psyche
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)
Context: The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
Girl, Interrupted (1994)