Grisette

“You talk as if we were still in the Middle Ages. The world has changed, Vivian.”

“Has it?” Vivian’s tone was mocking. “Show me a world that does not hate a powerful woman, and I’ll show you a world without men.”
― Morgan Ryan, A Resistance of Witches

“Your Highness, I told you many times...one cannot be protected from their fate,” Pathil observed in a calm tone. “She would not remember, if she did not belong with him.”
― Astrid Jane Ray, The Queen of Aessarion

“Civilization is often a task that is only barely managed. But harden your heart and slow your blood. The towers of justice are built one brick at a time. We have more to build yet.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

“We don’t die, my love, Evelyn had told her, though Lydia remembered her mother’s eyes were red and rimmed with tears. Not really. We change, yes. We become other things—the grass and flowers, trees and wind and stars. We rejoin the Great Mother, and our souls disperse into the universe, and become a part of a hundred million other living things, forever and ever.”
― Morgan Ryan, A Resistance of Witches