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We take women who need us, They all have their reasons.
Maybe they’ve had enough of this world and its heartbreak. Maybe they
wish to live far from the laws of men. But they must be strong enough to
turn their backs on this world, strong enough to live as we do. We don’t lead
comfortable lives, Fern, but we find our pleasures where we can. We live in
the margins, the in-between places.

Magic is the opposite of intellectual thought. Magic springs from your
emotions, unrestrained by the rules of the everyday. Logic says you
cannot, you should not, you must. A witch obeys only one command:
I will.

A true witch does not fear change. She is in an eternal state
of revolution.

No one cares what you wish, my dear,” she said. “Isn’t that your
problem? No one cares what any of you wish, or hope, or pray. You speak,
you cry, you scream, you beg, and what good has it done you? Here you
are, hidden away like unflattering photographs in some forgotten drawer,
locked up for doing the most natural thing in the world.

“You renounce God and turn your back on the world of man,” Miss
Parcae said. “And pledge eternal loyalty and obedience to me.”
“Okay,” Fern said, then turned to the other girls, who were staring up at
her. “Well,” she said. “What’s God ever done for us anyway?”

She thought about the Third, selling Rose and Blossom for a check. She
thought about being sent here so she didn’t ruin Guy’s bright future. She
thought about Zinnia’s mom buying that bottle of Lysol and carrying it
home. She thought about Reverend Jerry, waiting for Holly to bring him her
daughter.

“I can’t go back home,” Holly told them. “And I can’t run away
because I don’t have anyplace to go. I like it here because The Reverend
Jerry and my folks aren’t around to tell me what to do, but I know I have to
go back. My cousin died when she had her baby. I’ve been thinking that’s
the best thing that could happen. Me and the baby just die. Then he can’t
hurt us anymore.”

“Lifebuoy,” she said. “I can still taste it. So I told my dad. He gave me a
whipping. Then I told my sister and she told my mom and I got my mouth
washed out again plus another whipping, so after that I stopped telling
people anything.”

I started staying the night at his house when I was eight,” Holly said,
braiding left over center, right over center, left over center, right over center.
“When I got old enough to know that he shouldn’t be doing those things to
me, I told my mom. She said I was making up stories and washed my
mouth out with soap.

Then The Reverend started shining his light on me. He takes
me up to his house for singing lessons four times a week and my mom says
it’s a blessing because I’ve got three brothers and two sisters and she
doesn’t know what to do with us all

A witch follows no rules and does nothing that does not please her. A
witch is guided by her will alone, and if a law does not serve her
desires she will ignore it. Rules make her yawn and guidelines bore
her.

Either the house had magically
changed, or they’d been robbed by a family of highly motivated window
installers. Both scenarios were ludicrous, laughably so, and yet…

We’ll call this our first lesson then, little kit. If you are to
trick others, you must be honest with yourself about why you’re doing it.
Otherwise, tricks fall apart, becoming ineffective and bumbling. Or worse,
they become cruel for cruelty’s sake. I refuse to let that happen; there are far too many of my siblings who endorse that already.

That honest hate made him love her. He knew how unwilling she was in this marriage. So what happened on first night was him imposing on her. Using power difference as leverage. Shazard felt like she had to go through it. It was rape. I can't see beyond that. It’s no romance.

I still don't get that "Their marriage consummation and the night after " it clarifies in story that Khalid never entered any other brides chamber so, why? why would he violate her like that? Why would he perform on her one of the cruelest crimes you do to a person? Or is it supposed to be romantic and special because she's the exception? Because it also states in book that "he saw honest hate in her eyes"

"Nothing made sense. The girl he knew was not capable of such
fickleness. The girl he loved was too smart, too resourceful . . . too loyal to
be won over by a monster. Especially one who had murdered her best
friend."

For me there chemistry doesn’t makes sense....Khalid and Shahrzad’s..... i also believe it's Stockholm or the typical he is hot syndrome

Nothing made sense. The girl he knew was not capable of such
fickleness. The girl he loved was too smart, too resourceful . . . too loyal to
be won over by a monster. Especially one who had murdered her best
friend.

Where was that feeling of falling?
It’s here. I know it’s here. I can get it back.
I have to get it back.

Shahrzad’s baser instincts drove her to strike back at Yasmine for the
slight, but she refused to argue with the beautiful girl over a mercurial boy.

Monster? Hardly. Merely a boy-king.
And a dead one, at that.

When Tala’s eyes adjusted to the
darkness and she looked down, she saw her foot was caked in blood.
Hanging around her . . . were bodies. The bodies of young women. They
were Mehrdad’s—

When I was a little girl in Thebes, I remember asking my mother what heaven was. She replied, ‘A heart where love dwells.’ Of course, I then demanded to know what constituted hell. She
looked me straight in the eye and said, ‘A heart absent love.’”

I think it should be someone who isn’t afraid of you. And, though I do
feel . . . anxious in your presence, the more I see of everything around me,
the less I have reason to fear you.