The Once and Future Witches
Alix E. Harrow
Top 10 Best Quotes
“That’s all magic is, really: the space between what you have and what you need.”
“One witch you can laugh at. Three you can burn. But what do you do with a hundred?”
“I am terrified and I am terrible. I am fearful and I am something to be feared.”
“Every woman draws a circle around herself. Sometimes she has to be the only thing inside it.”
“Behind every witch is a woman wronged.”
“Because it's easy to ignore a woman." Juniper's lips twist in a feral smile. "But a hell of a lot harder to ignore a witch.”
“Bella informs her that this is the precise reason why women's dresses no longer have pockets, to show they bear no witch-ways or ill intentions, and Juniper responds that she has both, thank you very much.”
“She knows that history digs a shallow grave, and that the past is always waiting to rise again.”
“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”
“She thought survival was a selfish thing, a circle drawn tight around your heart. She thought the more people you let inside that circle the more ways the world had to hurt you, the more ways you could fail them and be failed in turn. But what if it’s the opposite, and there are more people to catch you when you fall? What if there’s an invisible tipping point somewhere along the way when one becomes three becomes infinite, when there are so many of you inside that circle that you become hydra-headed, invincible?”
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