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I want there to be a point, even if I do not know, for now, what that point is. There is a grace in denial, Chuks says, words that I repeat to myself. A refuge, this denial, this refusal to look.
“Much about motherhood is a challenge, but among its comforts is how I get to read so many things I never knew before and never knew I needed. For example, I didn’t know Jason and the Argonauts is really The Witch Medea Gets Your Golden Fleece for You, You Fucking Incompetent.”
― The Witch of Eye
― The Witch of Eye
“One way of thinking about a wife is that she is more or less invisible and so more or less free, provided she can remember to keep her head down long enough to stay that way.”
― The Witch of Eye
― The Witch of Eye
“I don’t go to church anymore unless someone is baptized, married, or dead; but I still bless myself whenever I am about to run a red and keep the palm cross tucked in my car above my head.”
― Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back
― Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back
“When you hear someone say Medusa was hideous with hair full of snakes, that is some xenophobic assholery by people who lived on the other shore of the Mediterranean Sea. When you hear she was a dangerous and vengeful witch, that means she was as measured in the congressional hearings on the subject of known-rapist Poseidon as any woman so subpoenaed always is.”
― The Witch of Eye
― The Witch of Eye
“The character of a king is a way of believing things happen for a reason. The queen is a way of being angry at someone besides God. A witch is a woman who thought her story ended with that wedding a dozen pages back and now she'd be allowed to do as she pleased.”
― The Witch of Eye
― The Witch of Eye
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