‘The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.’
“We never thought of ourselves as witches, my mother and I. For this was a word invented by men, a word that brings power to those who speak it, not those it describes. A word that builds gallows and pyres, turns breathing women into corpses.”
― Weyward
― Weyward
“He was a man, after all. He had no reason to think he would not be believed.”
― Weyward
― Weyward
“I think life has simply decided to open the floodgates, trying to drown me in a whirlwind of twists and turns.”
― Red Queen
― Red Queen
“Sadness is like stones that stack inside you, making it harder to move. Ignorance is my self-preservation tonic, and I’ll swear by it until I die.”
― When the Moon Hatched
― When the Moon Hatched
“Perhaps that was what he really had a problem with. That he could control her body, but not her mind.”
― Weyward
― Weyward
Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
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