The Black Witch (The Black Witch Chronicles, #1)

by Laurie Forest

The woods are beautiful. They’re my friends, the trees, and I can feel them smiling down at me.

“Who said confusion is a bad thing? I have found that confusion can be a very good thing. Often you have to fall into the chaos of utter confusion before you can emerge to see even the smallest glimmer of the truth.

“Real education doesn’t make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative, Elloren Gardner, is to live your life based on injustice and lies.”

“You haven’t followed politics because you haven’t had to,”

“People see what they expect to see,” he says sharply. “Through a filter of their own hatred and prejudice.