Joanna

“I think perhaps this is how we survive in the world. Passing little bits of our magic back and forth to each other when the world takes it from us. It's survival. It's love. It's family.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“The structures they built would bend and break, and they would make new ones. There would be nothing so precious that they couldn't begin again. And again.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

“This is survival. This is how the vessel protects the mind, how the mind protects the heart, how the heart goes on forgetting that its calling is to be undefended, tha being broken is part of being whole.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

“There's this feeling August has had everywhere she's ever lived, like she's not really there. Like it's all happening in a dream. She walks down the street, and it's like she's floating a few inches off the pavement, never rooted down. She touches things, a canister of sugar at a coffee shop, or the post of a street sign warm from the afternoon sun, and it feels like she hasn't touched anything at all, like it's all a place she lives in concept. She's just out here, shoes untied, hair a mess, no idea where she's going, scraping her knees and not bleeding.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop