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“Not always bound by blood, sometimes bound by affection. I contain the memories of mothers, and mentors, and teachers who were like mothers to me. We pass along our memories to another when the time comes for us to walk into that eternal wood that knows no winter. We pass along memories and lives in an unbroken string reaching all the way back to that temple on the hill, looking down over the river, where they came and left us offerings under the cypress-scented breeze. I am the last of the long, long line of Hecate, and now it’s time for someone else to carry the flame.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“Lewis gazed at the moon and then to Wren and once more at the moon and back to Wren, realizing, startlingly, he could not tell the two entities apart.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Having a mother helps you believe that everybody wants to hear every little thing you think. Having a mother helps you speak without thinking. It allows you to trust in your most awful self, to yell and scream and cry, knowing that your mother will still love you by the end of it.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People