Katherine Howe Quotes

United States, Novelist
1977

Katherine Howe is an American novelist who lives in New England and New York City. She specializes in historical novels which she uses to query ideas about "the contingent nature of reality and belief." Her debut novel was the New York Times Bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (2009), related to the Salem witch trials. Its success led to her being a guest on several TV news shows, as well as "Salem: Unmasking The Devil" on the National Geographic Channel.

...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people who could remember those parts of you disappear, and before long, all that's left is your name in some ledger. This...person -- she had a favorite food. She had friends and people she disliked. We don't even know how she died...I guess that's why I like preservation better than history. In preservation I feel like I can keep some of it from slipping away.

Katherine Howe
- People
- Long
- Remember
She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.

Katherine Howe
- People
- Fall
- Tree

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.

Katherine Howe
- Ideas
- Doubt
- Voice
God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.

Katherine Howe
- Soul
- Innocent
- Torment
Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

Katherine Howe
In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.

Katherine Howe
- World
- Way
But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.

Katherine Howe
- Believe
- Real
- Remember