Rachael

“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

“Yes, people age horribly. They suffer strokes. Their bodies and brains fall apart. But the male ego? Firmly intact until the bitter end.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“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

“What the eye couldn’t see, the imagination filled in. We put names to the unexplained. Cast it as something to either fear or worship. And yet just because a thing can’t be seen doesn’t mean it isn’t real.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch