Year of Wonders Chapter 12 Quotes

Year of Wonders Chapter 12 Quotes

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Quote 4

The trouble with weeping was that once begun, it became almost impossible to stop. (2.12.1)

Ain't that the truth? To be fair, our typical weeping sessions about One Direction are a tad less intense than they'd be if the plague destroyed our hometown.

Quote 5

I was finally able to fashion a scale on which I could weigh my father's nature and find a balance between my disgust for him and an understanding of him. (2.12.4)

Anna makes peace with her father's memory by thinking about the life circumstances that shaped him, for better or for worse. Mostly for worse. As a boy, Josiah Bont experienced a great deal of abuse and trauma, causing him pain that he later took out on innocent people like Anna. That doesn't excuse his actions, but it does help us understand them.

Quote 6

"We are become Golgotha—the place of skulls," said Michael Mompellion. (2.12.29)

Wow—that's pretty intense. For context, Golgotha was the hill where Jesus was crucified, according to the Bible. (It's also the name of our new doom metal band. We call dibs.)