The Dark Tide Quotes

“Betrayal cut so much deeper when you loved the hand that held the knife.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

“People claimed witches were nightmares, dreams, but Eva felt they were closer to plants; wild magic grew inside of each of them, waiting to be harvested in the strands of their hair, their salt tears, their spit and blood.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

“The Witch Queen comes on wings of night.
The Witch Queen has your heart's delight.
Hold him, hold him, hold on tight.
Hide him, hide him, out of sight.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

“Do you have to stare at me like that?"
"Like what?"
Like you're planning to eat me.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Dark Tide

“Eva had reached her limit for human interaction.
She could feel the climbing tension in her muscles. the sharp stab of irritation every time another person spoke, the rising desire to pluck one of the hairpins out of her braids and shove it through someone's throat.”
― Alicia Jasinska

“You see, when everything else is gone, there's always work. I don't think anyone ever realises how much work can mean until the other things are gone.”
― Vera Brittain, The Dark Tide

“Daphne tried to convey to him that the likelihood of degrees for women at Oxford was a matter for satisfaction, perhaps, but hardly for excitement or ratification. Women's accomplishments in the University had long been equal, if not superior, to men's; degrees were not a privilege, they were simply what women deserved - their due, their right. She became very animated as she argued on this topic.”
― Vera Brittain, The Dark Tide