Curly Entropy

“Or written anew. Every spell that exists was once spoken for the first time, by a witch who needed it.” Bella actually claps her hands together. “Then the library could be . . . oh, but it would take so much work.” The Crone huffs. “It always does.” “Always?” “Avalon wasn’t the first library. Alexandria, Antioch, Avicenna . . . They keep burning us. We keep rising again.”
― Alix E. Harrow

“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

“That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree