"News of the World" Quotes
An elderly war veteran in post-Civil War Texas is tasked with returning a young girl, who was raised by Native Americans, to her family.
historical fiction | 209 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
She would have to leave her dead child here, alone, while she went to some place of safety.
You can have anything you want, but you may have to pay for it.
A man who reports the news is called a reporter. A man who has a paper route is called a newsboy. A man who can read the news and deliver it himself is called a publisher.
She had a wild, lost look about her, like the woman in the book.
He was an old man, but not nearly so old as Captain Kidd. He had a gray beard and a pair of spectacles perched on his nose.
The baby was sleeping soundly, his small chest rising and falling, and she thought, I will never see him again.
The world has come down to the two of them, and the child asleep on the floor.
But he did not know what to do. He had never had a child before.
He looked at her, and for a moment she saw something kind and human in his eyes.
She turned and walked away, her shoulders bowed and her head down.
