“A hard grimace set on Abitha's face. "If it is a witch they want," she hissed, "then a witch they shall have.”
― Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
― Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
“It’s not always enough to go looking for the place we belong. Sometimes we need to make that place.”
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“Danger rarely wore a monstrous face and a wielded a pitchfork. No, danger came most often in the form of nice people whose niceness only went so deep, who saved their niceness for people exactly like them, who believed they were more deserving of power and respect than anyone who was a little bit different.”
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“It’s astonishing what you’ll accept when you want love. When you need it. You’ll welcome it in any form, from anyone, anything, regardless of circumstance, however peculiar. However fantastical.”
― Cackle
― Cackle
“I have never understood, and still do not understand the notion that a woman must first endure a victimhood of some sort—abandonment, abuse, oppression of the patriarchy—to be monstrous. Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason. But why would she do it? Why, why, why?”
― Maeve Fly
― Maeve Fly
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