Crystal

“Magic and faith were fickle. Life and living were fickle.”
― Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

“We spend our youth building sandcastles of ambition, then watch as life blows sands of doubt over our carefully crafted turrets of wishes and dreams, until we can no longer see them at all. We learn to settle instead for flattened lives, residing inside prisons of compromise. A little relieved that the windows of the world we settled for are too small to see out of, so we don’t have to stare at the castle-shaped fantasies of who we might have been.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“The future is a promise we can still choose whether to keep. The past is a promise we’ve already broken.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“What I wanted to say to this man was that the greatest works of poetry, what make each of us a poet, are the stories we tell about ourselves. We create them out of family and blood and friends and love and hate and what we’ve read and watched and witnessed. Longing and regret, illness, broken bones, broken hearts, achievements, money won and lost, palm readings and visions. We tell these stories until we believe them, we believe in ourselves, and that is the most powerful thing of all.”
― Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics