Monday, March 23, 2009

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

A quote from my kid’s historical fiction read aloud on the US civil war:

 

“Don’t expect peace to be a perfect pearl, Jeth,”  Ross Milton had warned.  “This is a land lying in destruction, physical and spiritual.  If the twisted railroads and the burned cities and the fields covered with the bones of dead men - if that were all, we could soon rise out of the destruction.  But the hate that burns in old scars, and the thirst for revenge that has distorted men until they should be in straitjackets rather than in high office-these are the things that may make peace a sorry thing…”

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