“So many more terrible things will come to pass after the collapse that I wonder how big a deal it will seem to you.”
― Animal
― Animal
“Perhaps one day (...) there will be a safer time, when women could walk the Earth, shining bright with power, and yet live.”
― Weyward
― Weyward
“I am in the ocean. I am on the shore. I am trying to remember or to see.
The space between me and me is you. This is a mystery.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
The space between me and me is you. This is a mystery.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
“Witch. The word slithers from the mouth like a serpent, drips from the tongue as thick and black as tar. We never thought of ourselves as witches, my mother and I. For this was a word invented by men, a word that brings power to those that speak it, not those that it describes. A word that builds gallows and pyres, turns breathing women into corpses.”
― Weyward
― Weyward
“I don't miss my name and I haven't bothered to replace it. I miss your name. I'm sorry but I have forgotten it, too. I don't look for it on the walls. The thought that I might read it and pass it by, just to go on to the next name is terrible. Like meeting you in another life and failing to recognize you.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
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