V.V. James > Quotes

“Magic is the art of choosing the best path to where you wish to be. And as with life, where you end up is the result of the choices you’ve made.”
― V.V. James, Sanctuary

“maintaining the appearance of something can help bring about the reality of it.”
― V.V. James, Sanctuary

“Sanctuary's the sort of place that's good at making you feel not good enough.”
― V.V. James, Sanctuary

“The more time I spend around witchcraft, the more I realize how poorly understood magic is, and the stronger my hunch that ignorance is the cause of so much fear and suspicion surrounding it. It's an authoritarian playbook move - push a group to the margins and terrorize them, force them underground, then demonize them for being separatist and secretive. Lord knows it's been played on more than just witches in our nation's long history.”
― V.V. James, Bittershore

“Self-preservation is our most fundamental instinct—only parenthood overrides it.”
― V.V. James, Sanctuary