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Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

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I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can’t decide which is worse, coming up against the ...more

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“She recalled her favorite part about being single, about being alive, the only thing for which she experienced pure and complete gratitude as well as the existence of God and heaven, her greatest, most unfiltered joy: sleeping alone, waking up alone, not speaking before noon.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

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“What makes a witch, then? If it is not divinity?’
‘I do not know for certain,’ I said. ‘I once thought it was passed through blood, but Telegonus has no spells in him. I have come to believe it is mostly will.’
She nodded. I did not have to explain. We knew what will was.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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“You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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“Emboldened by the dark phase of the moon, the constellations twisted round in their infinite sky, slowly corkscrewing into the future, divining immutable futures for those still awake and gazing up.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

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“Little by little I began to listen better: to the sap moving in the plants, to the blood in my veins. I learned to understand my own intention, to prune and to add, to feel where the power gathered and speak the right words to draw it to its height. That was the moment I lived for, when it all came clear at last and the spell could sing with its pure note, for me and me alone.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, greek-mythology, intuition, spells, witchcraft, witches

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