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“What I did not know was that I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: However blameless the life we lead, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
“I would be Medusa, if it came to it, I resolved. If the gods held me accountable one day for the sins of someone else, if they came for me to punish a man’s actions, I would not hide away like Pasiphae. I would wear that coronet of snakes, and the world would shrink from me instead.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
“And how is a miracle different from a spell? Who is to say the saint was not a witch?”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“But María has known, all her life, that she is not meant for common paths, for humble houses and modest men. If she must walk a woman's road then it will take her somewhere new.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“You, the wise old witch in the woods, doing no harm so that no harm will come to you. You forget that your enemies strike first, and they strike harder, and they do not give you the same respect that you give them.”
― The Witch's Heart
― The Witch's Heart
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