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“He was a man, and a rich one, and these together made him believe the planets and moons orbited around the single point of his desires.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Wild Beauty

“No," he said. He said it without sadness, because however he had died to the gray world and the soft, olive-leafed world before that, he was in this world now. Estrella's.
This was the place he was coming back to life.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Wild Beauty

“Everything that had cursed them had made a home of this ground. It had grown tendrils and shoots. It had twisted and curled, and shot out thorns. They had to dig their hands in as deep as the earth would let them. They could not free themselves by deadheading flowers and crushing leaves.

They would change nothing by picking flowers.

They had to rip out their fate by the roots.
”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Wild Beauty

“There was magic to things that were familiar and ordinary. The way they were known was a kind of enchantment, and when they were gone, the spell broke.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Wild Beauty