Bea Kate’s Reviews > The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One > Status Update

...meant to warn other people’s daughters, & i will still cry when i turn on the television to find yet another man getting away with well— what they always seem to get away with. i am not the one who has to change the way i think or the way i act.they are.

- abuse is nothing to romanticize. telling me not all men have bad intentions doesn’t do anything to reassure me. after I walk away from you, nothing will have changed. i will still be scared to leave my house after sundown, i will still find comfort in keys resting between fingers, i will still question the intentions of every man i know, i will still wonder when i am to become a story....

to

describe myself

as

fat

is not

to

describe myself

as

ugly, lazy, worthless,

or undesirable.

- it’s my self-acceptance movement.

always put yourself first. sacrifice at your own discretion.

- coven rule #1.
-- ii. the burning

even the way they crush us beneath their angry steps leaves them breathless.

- wilted before the bloom.
-- ii. the burning

they will try to steal your light & use it as a weapon against you. but there’s a piece of good news: they don’t have the patience to control it like you do.

-- ii. the burning

they would watch us burn before letting us think we can be our own people, before letting us think we’re capable of anything more than they are.
-- ii. the burning

to be a woman is to be a warbound, knowing all the odds are stacked against you and never giving up in spite of it.
-- i. the trial

you are your own lighthouse.
-- i. the trial

they have never fully forgiven us for claiming the portion of the sky that was always rightfully ours.


-- i. the trial