Maisha

“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.”
― Sarah Pinborough, 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.”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now

“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.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

“I look back down at the stone. “All these graves. So many stories.” “And every one a unique blessing.”
― Sarah Pinborough, We Live Here Now