Here I was, walking in a veritable Death Valley of flora. It rose around me, far above my head and crushed in from both sides. My eyes watered, my throat and nose itched with every breath I took, and the patches of bare skin the plant had
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“Madness is a place where I hide from those who would silence me.”
― Recurve
― Recurve
“Help is rare. Knowledge, rarer. Show, tell, figure. Sight may come.”
― Thorn Kissed and Silver Chains
― Thorn Kissed and Silver Chains
“Besides, I knew, as only a daughter unable to rely on her mother could, that a woman could only really rely on herself.”
― Thorn Kissed and Silver Chains
― Thorn Kissed and Silver Chains
“Isn’t it strange to see that, even as one’s own story unfolds, others are traveling through their own, which may be just as interesting?”
― The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
― The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
“Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.”
― Practical Magic
― Practical Magic
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