Harvest

• Ch9 “My once darker hair is clashing with their blonde again” 
• Ch11 “These loose roots might save me yet” 
• Ch 2 “We’re not hurtful people hereabouts. But we feel naked without tools” 
• Ch3 “secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming. So we are all conspirators at night” 
• Ch6 “we in this village walk around blinded in ignorance”
• Ch17 “My vellum is an unmarked sheet. It could be anywhere.” 
• Ch17 “I have to carry on alone until I reach wherever is awaiting me, until I gain wherever is awaiting us.”
• Ch2 “Some of them were armed – or is it fairer to say equipped?” 
• Ch3 “let them soak up the blame… who have no roots but are like mistletoe” 
• Ch6 “How can it profit us that there are trees, an oak, let’s say, producing shade but not a single fruit to eat, except for beasts” 
• Ch8 “my surface is very nearly fibrous enough to hold yet not absorb his inks and paints” 
• Ch8 “hoping to discover that coloured patterns he can devise to make the story of our farmscape – and out sheepscape – easy to decipher.” 
• Ch9 “We’re the majority, they protest. We must be listened to. I hear the word petition… even if they had a doorway to a church, none of them has a signature” 
• Ch6 “summon everyone to prayer. And hurry everyone to work.”
• Ch7 “There’s nothing like a show of heavy justice – and a swinging corpse – to persuade a populace not used to formal discipline that their compliance in all matters”
• Ch12 “Ours has been a village of Enough, but he proposes it will be a settlement of More”
• Ch12 “Alchemy and sorcery were trifling affairs compared to the Land of progress he proposed” 
• Ch2 “The local women were like land – fenced in, assigned and spoken for” 
• Ch4 “The girls and lasses are brought forward to pout and curtsey” 
• Ch9 “My memory plumpened her and toughened her. But without the heavy wrapping of her shawl she’s even more birdlike”
• Ch3 “There is a wanting in the air, and sorcery” 
• Ch10 “I overheard the mention of a ‘sorceress’ just yesterday, but that’s less burdensome a word” 
• Ch10 “The one word witchery has licenced the Jordan sidemen to do precisely what they want”
• Ch14 “We will though, do our best to make a noble and an honest scar” 
• Ch15 “Is that your fiercest riot and unrest, to put a pair of dumb beasts on the plough and mark your outrage on a field?” 
• Ch16 “A fury has swept through the place, a fury that reserved its wrath for mostly worthless things”