"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"
"I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!"
"But God made my face; you cannot want to tear my face. Envy is a deadly sin, Mary."
"I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint. It is a fraud. I am not that man. My honesty is broke, Elizabeth; I am no good man. Nothing's spoiled by giving them this lie that were not rotten long before."
"A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between."
"There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits. I fear it, I fear it. Let us rather blame ourselves..."