academic witch

“For the truth is ... that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. They hunt in packs. Their packs scour the desert and vanish screaming into the wilderness. They desert the fallen.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Say what you will about witches, but we are a literary bunch.”
― Pam Grossman, Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power

“He seekes out mighty charmes , to trouble sleepy mindes.”
― Edmund Spenser, Book 1 of the Faery Queene