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Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

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Magic and faith were fickle. Life and living were fickle.

“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.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

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“Who we are is about not what we do, but why we tell ourselves we do it.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways

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“We make moments with our families. Sometimes we stitch them together over time, to make more of them than they were. We share them and hold on to them together as if they were treasure, even when they start to rust. Sometimes those moments change shape in our memories, sometimes we stop being able to see them how they really were. Sometimes we have different recollections of the same moments, as though they were never really shared at all.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

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

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“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

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