Katie

“She thought survival was a selfish thing, a circle drawn tight around your heart. She thought the more people you let inside that circle the more ways the world had to hurt you, the more ways you could fail them and be failed in turn. But what if it’s the opposite, and there are more people to catch you when you fall? What if there’s an invisible tipping point somewhere along the way when one becomes three becomes infinite, when there are so many of you inside that circle that you become hydra-headed, invincible?”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“maybe trust is neither lost nor found, broken nor mended, but merely given.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“Knowing another person better than yourself was a myth. You could live to be a hundred, spend eighty of those years with the same woman, and never be privy to all her white lies or dirty dreams. Two people could agree to find that beautiful, couldn’t they? Two people could accept each other as disgraceful, dishonest, capable of immense harm to themselves and to others—and that could be beautiful.”
― Emily Adrian, Seduction Theory

“Or perhaps for all of them: for the little girls thrown in cellars and the grown women sent to workhouses, the mothers who shouldn’t have died and the witches who shouldn’t have burned. For all the women punished merely for wanting what they shouldn’t”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches