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“READER, I RAN the fuck away.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“Somehow, there is a sense of comfort in knowing nothing will ever hit me quite as hard again. Nothing will ever be as beautiful, but neither will anything hurt as much.”
― Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers

“That’s all magic is, really: the space between what you have and what you need.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“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