nancy’s Reviews > The Once and Future Witches > Status Update

I don’t want to put too much pressure on the next half of the book but it’s quickly becoming one of my favorite reads of the year

“She sits on the bed and watches the stairwell, still waiting. A habit, maybe, from the seven years she spent hoping her sisters would come home. She’s given up on hope, but she can’t seem to leave the habit of waiting behind.”

"Beatrice rubs her thumb along the spine of her notebook, stuffed full of her most private thoughts and theories, her wildest suppositions and most dangerous inquiries. Her own heart, sewn and bound. It should be difficult to hand it over to a near-stranger, even impossible. It isn't."

“Every woman draws a circle around herself. Sometimes she has to be the only thing inside it.”