Ava Morgyn > Quotes

“It’s no longer the loss of the person you mourn, but the loss of the haunt.”
― Ava Morgyn, Resurrection Girls

“I’m old. And the benefit of getting old is that people stop telling you what to do.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“I wouldn’t do it for you,” I tell him. “I’d do it for her. And for all the others like her who could have been spared.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“But I am forever trying to get gold stars”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“If history has taught us anything, it is this—powerful men never tire of abusing their positions. There is much work to do still.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“You died to an illusion of weakness,” Bella says to me”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“If history has taught us anything, it is this—powerful men never tire of abusing their positions.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“But I died,” I tell them. “I died so that I could live on my own, as my own.” “You died to an illusion of weakness,” Bella says to me, “so that you may live your strength.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“I know my place, and it was never at a man’s side.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“She smiles in the soft light. “We don’t fear men in this house,” she tells me. “Men fear us.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“We don’t fear men in this house,” she tells me. “Men fear us.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“But as a witch, Truly knew that wherever women gathered, power flowed and miracles became possible. It was why they had been discouraged, scattered and isolated, even hunted and killed for thousands of years by men with authority. Because they didn’t want that authority challenged, and the only thing higher than an appointed man was a circle of like-minded, good-hearted, intention-aligned women.”
― Ava Morgyn, Magic for Crosswise Witches

“A very little poison can do a world of good. It’s all about how you apply it.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“EMIL STOPS ME on the porch as I am reaching for the front doorknob of Myrtle’s cabin. “You sure you don’t want me to stay with you tonight? You’ve been through a trauma. It might help you feel safe.” I smile wearily at him. “My whole life has been a trauma,” I remind him. “Tonight wasn’t my first rodeo.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“Or maybe I’ll live alone, able to make my own decisions about everything from what sweater to wear to what car to buy. But it will be mine, and that’s what matters.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“Why is it easier for me to point a finger at these women than the men who provoked them?”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“Every other step is agonizing”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“The world as we know it has long festered a hatred for women”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“The good days dot my memory like sand dollars on the beach. Prizes to collect, dead as they are.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“He doesn’t rush to make it right or alter my feelings. He just sits beside me”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“I don’t care what happens to me as long as I can finally be me”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“It might be safer,” I tell her truthfully. I don’t expect Henry to come looking for me, but two years with him has taught me to always look over my shoulder. She smiles in the soft light. “We don’t fear men in this house,” she tells me. “Men fear us.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“I am surrounded by women far deadlier than I, women whose understanding and experience of our gifts outweigh my own.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“I poisoned myself instead of someone else and ended up in the arms of a man even more toxic than my family line. A man whose idea of love is deadly. There is a strange irony to it.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“I place my nose on top of the Lab’s head and breathe in deep. He smells like comfort.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“The world as we know it has long festered a hatred for women, let alone witches, a hatred for everything we are and stand for. There is nothing it despises more than a woman with power. We are everything they want to eliminate.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“I will not be set aside”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“Maybe I’m no good for men anymore. Maybe I never was.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“We are a family of crows,” she told me. “Don’t forget that. The other children you know, they’re hawks or sparrows, doves or starlings. But you, dear girl, are a crow. Do you know what sets a crow apart?” I shook my head. “Crows feed on what others can’t.” She stared down at me. “Including other birds.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch

“It’s like I always say, a very little poison can do a world of good.”
― Ava Morgyn, The Bane Witch