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“That’s definitely part of it, but that’s what we say to be kind to ourselves when things don’t turn out. The essence of who we are doesn’t alter that much as we age. A few people make big changes that can affect relationships—alcoholics who quit drinking or the other way around—but most of us just get calmer as we get older. Not really much different.”
― We Live Here Now
― We Live Here Now
“The air is icy and I bolt the door closed and wish we had a cat or something so I didn’t feel quite so alone and morose.”
― We Live Here Now
― We Live Here Now
“My point is,” Russell powers on, “that we all fall in love in part with an illusion, because we all present an illusion to someone who we want to love us. We heighten the best bits of ourselves and hide the worst bits. And when looking at our partner we ignore the hints of the things that might annoy us and see only the good. The madness of first love. A successful marriage is about accepting that no one can ever be that perfect version they showed you and you chose to believe.”
― We Live Here Now
― We Live Here Now
“How can we trust mana-deprived outsiders to govern mana? An all-purpose excuse for locking Witches out of power. Never mind that Witches could channel mana, just like all Aeltheans, and felt its loss just as keenly. The only difference was, they couldn’t shape mana into magic. It was as if a circuit had broken somewhere in the process, requiring spirits to act on their will. When Evy arrived in Ruitheon, she would have to walk a fine, impossible line. She would need to challenge their prejudice without overpowering them and show her strength without revealing the full weight of it. And that, somehow, felt far harder than winning the Hierarch Wars.”
― The Hierarch Wars: A Witchy Dystopian Fantasy
― The Hierarch Wars: A Witchy Dystopian Fantasy
“but the older priestesses had explained to her, as they gathered in the courtyard, that the Moon God was effacing the brightness of the Goddess, and she ran out with them joyously to join in the shrieks of the women to frighten him away. Later it had been explained to her how the sun and moon moved, and why, now and again, one of them crossed the face of the other; that it was in the way of nature, and the common people’s beliefs about the face of the Gods were symbols which these people, at the current state of their evolution, needed to visualize the great truths. Some day all men and women would know the inner truths, but now they needed them not.”
― The Mists of Avalon
― The Mists of Avalon
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