Ally

“I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“I wanted to be buried. If I must depart this life, I thought, let me live on in the soil: let me feed the earthworms, nourish the roots of the trees, like my mother and her mother before her.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“I had been quiet in those moments. If I had hoped for a future with anyone, it was with her.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“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.
No. It was not a word we ever used.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward