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Anyone who truly thought ladies didn’t sweat never spent the summer in Georgia.
Savannah had the power to hold people long after their final sell-by date had been carved into marble.
If you ain’t come for cursin’, you must not know what the hell you doin’.”
Just ’cause you don’t own something, don’t mean you gotta steal it.
You ain’t gotta be no witch to work the magic. It just take a bit longer. And you gotta be willing to make a few sacrifices.”
In order to get rid of the demons, we lost the unicorn. Most magical creatures didn’t make it through the great energy shift with us.
If you ain’t willing to sacrifice, you ain’t never gonna know the power.
The rational part of my mind told me to stop carrying on. To call for help. I told it to fuck off, and continued screaming until I was good and satisfied that the heavens had heard me.
I’m afraid that I’m beyond the age of rising gracefully from the ground under my own steam, but not yet at that age where my pride would allow me to accept your help.
Mother Jilo, resplendent in shades of blue and purple that could arouse envy in a morning glory.
The recipe for true haint blue called for the ashes of a cat’s left back leg.
I was not about to be bossed around by a mud pie with an attitude.
You have to close some doors, honey, no matter how nice a yard they open out onto.”
Choosing and then living with the consequences, that’s what deciding really is.”
I felt like a fish that had been tossed into water for the first time after somehow managing to survive its entire life on dry land.
It was wrong for me to put my desire for knowledge and power before my family’s well-being.
He turned away from me and hopped into his GTO, leaving behind a peel of rubber the length of a full good-bye.
doing things the non-magical way builds character.”
things can easily go wrong when you have ten strong personalities playing volleyball with a nuclear bomb.”
forgiveness was not a one-time act. It was a decision to move on and focus on a person’s good features each time the hurt over what they’ve done crept back up on you.
