Lara

“The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

“To let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. Sometimes that’s the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it. And sometimes you have to find courage to know that it was your folly or your wrongdoing which lost it; before you make a spell to bring it back, you have to change yourself. That’s one of the deepest transformations that can be.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers

“Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.”
― Charlaine Harris

“Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers