Sari

“Not at first. At first it feels like nothing. Like this hole that you’ve thrown some sand over. You can even cover it so well that it looks totally solid. Only it’s not and so you keep stumbling in. Over and over. A hundred falls a day. And yet, each time, you can’t believe that you forgot it was there.”
― Leah Scheier, The Last Words We Said

“It’s been a year. There’s been footage on the TV of riots in faraway and unstable parts of the world, of women taking whole cities. Daniel’s right. The critical thing isn’t that fifteen-year-old girls can do it: you could contain that. The thing is that they can wake up this power in some of the older women. It raises questions. How long has this been possible? How did no one know until now?”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“You light a fire early in your girlhood. You stoke it and tend it. You protect it at all costs. You don’t let it rage into a mountain of light, because that’s not becoming of a girl. You keep it secret. You let it burn. You look into the eyes of other girls and see their fires flickering there, offer conspiratorial nods, never speak aloud of a near-unbearable heat, a growing conflagration. You tend the flame because if you don’t you’re stuck, in the cold, on your own, doomed to seasonal layers, doomed to practicality, doomed to this is just the way things are, doomed to settling and understanding and reasoning and agreeing and seeing it another way and seeing it his way and seeing it from all the other ways but your own. And”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

“That is where love and lamentation chance upon one another, and that is where we find God.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch