Shraddha

“What any woman wants for herself is not for you to decide. You would do well to remember that.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“But what happens when the girl keeps living, when she ages proudly and defiantly, without abandoning imagination, or stories, or that secret wish to find magic wherever it hides? Well, then the poets would call her a witch.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“One day, I will be a rose. And I will plant myself somewhere so beautiful that I will never want to leave.” Her mother laughed. “And what if someone wants to pluck you?” “That is what the thorns are for,” she said.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch