Lara

“wishing is a curse on the woman who does it, as well as the one who receives it. When you put such words out in the world, they can overshoot—like an arrow—that’s what my great-aunt Jehanne told me. A curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers

“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

“Women have always fought not just for survival, but for the meaning of the struggle - now, they are organizing, grouping and pushing forward, not merely for new definitions, but for the right to define.”
― Rosalind Miles, Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World

“You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.”
― Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas