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“Don’t put it off for too long. Poison can grow from blame.”

“You have lit up this home from the moment you entered our world. What an incredible gift to be able to illuminate all of Reverie.”

“Not dead then, just a bitch. Still a bitch. No surprise there.”

“Are you really going to light yourself on fire to keep someone warm who wouldn’t even bother to piss on you to put you out?”

“But you left,” Esther said, seeming to sense Abby’s humiliation. The woman smiled at her, kind and encouraging. “You left, and thats more than most can ever say.”

“What did she want? Everything. She wanted everything. She wanted to be unafraid to ask questions about the world around her. She wanted the answers to come from something other than the Bible. Anything other than the Bible. She wanted to learn.”

“Oh Gwen… what kind of dad would I be if I tried to stop you from being who you were born to be?”

“‘Just enjoying what I see,’ the woman said with a faint smile. ‘A girl who knows exactly who she is.’”

“What you said, after the tea party—you were right. When someone kisses you, it should be because they want to. Need to. Because they can’t take another second wondering, dreaming, about what it would be like.”

“I am full of fire. There is always drama here—always someone coming, someone going, someone falling in love, someone crying out in grief. I cannot stop all the horses that wish to gallop through my mind. I must simply guide them.”

“‘Because the woman must be able to do everything the man does,’ Madame Dupont corrected her, a gleam in her eyes. ‘Only she must do it backward’”

“That the one thing she truly wanted—had always wanted, since her mother told her that first story of knights and dragons and chivalry and protecting the helpless—was the one thing she could never have for herself, not in a million years, not in a world that was, and ever would be, run by men.”

“Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another their desire?”

“These women have always worn motherhood big and loud on their chests, but Tova keeps hers inside, sunk deep in her guts like an old bullet. Private.”

“Men who believe they’re entitled to greatness simply because they want it. Men angry at their own smallness, who tear doen others when they can’t rise. Men like that don’t deserve your kindness, Cert” “No,” Said Certainty, thoughtfully, “But maybe we should give it to them anyway”

“‘Cert, I think I’m happier than I’ve ever been.’ Aurelia took a quiet, shuddering breath. ‘Here. With you.’”

“The wild magic encircled this strange clearing. Its tendrils prodded gently at it; sought entrance. Let me in, the magic seemed to whisper. I am of you. And slowly, so slowly, the sleeping land awoke, and began to drink…”

“Don’t say that you’re not important. Don’t make yourself smaller than you are. Other people will always try to do so, but don’t do it for them. You are important. And you belong there just much as anyone does.”

“Bees, like cats, were creatures of magic. They needed it in the same way that humans needed sunlight.”

“Too bad nothing magical ever turned out to be quite as simple as one thought.”

“Becoming who you want to be is just like anything else. It takes practice. It requires belief that one day, you’ll wale up and be a natural at it.”

“Seriously, what’s wrong with you straight women?”

“I’ll lick it up like I’m a priest.”

“Maybe one becomes comfortable with sincerity when they listen to people talk about their own shit with the utmost seriousness”

“‘They’re books, not decor,’ Phoebe says. Phoebe doesn’t have too many beliefs, but this is one of them.”

“Seems more plausible that Hell is some revenge fantasy concocted by unhappy people so they could punish all the happy people in their minds.”

“I just mean, a story can be beautiful not because of the way it ends. But because of the way it’s written.”

“There is no such thing as a happy place. Because when you are happy, everywhere is a happy place.”

“You’re the Obi-Wan of oral.”

“You’re not Taylor Swift. No offense.”