Maureen

“You know I take the Knight of Courage as my patron. There is courage, I think, in open-mindedness, and thinking for oneself. If you are a witch, then perhaps witches are not so wicked after all.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“What does the God of your childhood look like?
A soft apparition pigeoned in the attic,

a wound eating you one year at a time?”
― Rachel McKibbens

“I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree