“Everyone wants to see a witch punish someone for stealing from her. A witch is a kind of justice in the world. It makes for a fine story. No one wants to admit the truth, for all it stares them plainly in the face."
"What's that?"
"Steal from a woman long enough, and a witch is what she'll become.”
― The River Has Roots
"What's that?"
"Steal from a woman long enough, and a witch is what she'll become.”
― The River Has Roots
“We only have one life to live and everyone owes it to themselves to squeeze the maximum fun and joy out of it. Once your one life is gone, it’s gone.”
― 'Tis the Damn Season
― 'Tis the Damn Season
“if you spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror, you will crash your car.”
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“Sorrow and love are a single coin - the one we pay as the price of our humanity. Take it away and we'd be the worst kind of poor. And it's a mistake to believe the value of a life is erased by anguish at the end. If there's one thing atheists and the devout can agree on, Colin, death is where you leave your suffering behind.”
― King Sorrow
― King Sorrow
“Most music is the result of some intimacy with an instrument. One wraps one’s mouth around a whistle and pours one’s breath into it; one all but lays one’s cheek against a violin; and skin to skin is holy drummer’s kiss. But a harp is played most like a lover: you learn to lean its body against your breast, find those places of deepest, stiffest tension with your hands and finger them into quivering release.”
― The River Has Roots
― The River Has Roots
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