{"quotes":[{"text":"We're all here. We're close to the truck, and we met Kenton, a fine citizen of Salem. We rescued Izzy and found our way through a very sad darkness, dangers that we knew from Izzy's Orion interpretation would be waiting for us. We're definitely on the right track.","author":"Jonathan Friesen","tags":["clara","elias","heroes","izzy","kenton","path","salem","summary","weird"],"id":42046,"author_id":"Jonathan+Friesen"},{"text":"Out in the stone-pile the toad squatted with its glowing jewel-eyes and, maybe, its memories. I don't know if you'll admit a toad could have memories. But I don't know, either, if you'll admit there was once witchcraft in America. Witchcraft doesn't sound sensible when you think of Pittsburgh and subways and movie houses, but the dark lore didn't start in Pittsburgh or Salem either; it goes away back to dark olive groves in Greece and dim, ancient forests in Brittany and the stone dolmens of Wales. All I'm saying, you understand, is that the toad was there, under its rocks, and inside the shack Pete was stretching on his hard bed like a cat and composing himself to sleep.('Before I Wake...').","author":"Henry Kuttner","tags":["america","brittany","greece","pittsburgh","salem","toad","wales","witch","witchcraft","witches"],"id":59706,"author_id":"Henry+Kuttner"},{"text":"Annie's message is timeless, her shining spirit and healing gift from the Spiritual Universe will capture your heart. She was born with birth defects in a time when special children and their mothers were put to death or banished. But have things changed really that much? Have they changed enough? 'No!' Bullying, abuse, ridicule, and inequality thrives in the lives of women and children in our global modern society, just as surely as it did in the mid-1600s Colonial America. Based on factual research.","author":"Deborah A.Bowman","tags":["birth-defects","colonial-america","historical-fiction-based-on-fact","puritans","salem","scottish","spiritual","white-light-healing","witchcraft"],"id":90440,"author_id":"Deborah+A.Bowman"},{"text":"Sparhawk had fallen into a nest of pirates.","author":"Donna Thorland","tags":["historical-romance","pirates","salem"],"id":218896,"author_id":"Donna+Thorland"},{"text":"Merry’s mind devolved into chaos. Ideas evaded her. Words chased one another into meaningless jumbles. Her breath came in shallow gasps as the ghastly image of William’s lifeless body twisting in the wind, solidified and held.","author":"Susan Catalano","tags":["despair","salem","witch"],"id":238625,"author_id":"Susan+Catalano"},{"text":"Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["blind-beliefs","blindness","broken","corporateness","cross","death","evolution","fear","fear-of-difference","fear-of-unknown","finding-evil","hatred","heresy","illness","inmaturity","joan-of-arc","justice","killing","monsters","murder","narrow-mindedness","no-cure","no-ownership","please-forgive-them-god","quakers","rapture","rituals","salem","searching-for-evil","self-pity","superstition","traditions","victomized","witch-hunts"],"id":266329,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.","author":"Stacy Schiff","tags":["answers","questions","salem","witches"],"id":294628,"author_id":"Stacy+Schiff"},{"text":"The world he thought he knew had become an odd thing, twisting time and purpose. But it had remained an unfair universe in the end.","author":"Susan Catalano","tags":["salem","salem-witch-trials","time-travel","witches"],"id":316243,"author_id":"Susan+Catalano"},{"text":"She promised you'd get to shore in one piece.' Cheap said, 'and I won't make a liar out of her. But if you know what's good for you, you'll forget about that girl. Ask anyone on the coast. Or the Lord God himself. They'll tell you. Lucas Cheap sailed with the Brethren. He makes good ever on his threats.","author":"Donna Thorland","tags":["historical-romance","pirates-of-the-caribbean","salem","swashbuckler"],"id":334070,"author_id":"Donna+Thorland"},{"text":"He peered into the night-dark windows of the afflicted girls, whispering names and stirring fits into their dreams until their own screams awakened them. The girls concocted fantastic stories of witches and curses and torture at the hands of specters. More accusers joined their ranks without his nurturing, puppets of their own envy. Such imagination, such dedication to the destruction of their own. And all in his name. It touched his dark soul.","author":"Susan Catalano","tags":["dark","salem","salem-witch-trials"],"id":369514,"author_id":"Susan+Catalano"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}