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They studied by the light of their own Joans, no doubt, but I live by you.
“Why is everyone always telling everyone to do something?”
For a gender so boastful, very odd that Western men relinquish their claim to the practice of magic, very odd that they wouldn’t yearn to be witches too.
The person who believes in you is the most dangerous person you know. The person who believes in you can unbuild you in an instant.
Outside it felt less like winter than the lack of every season: a harsh, open, blank day that had never been colored in.
How envy is the best distraction from the completeness of our own lives. How longing is sacred and envy is rotten longing. How hard we are on our own happiness and how generous we are toward just about anyone else, how willing we are to believe that anyone else knows how.
“Love can be fought for but not insisted upon.”
“it’s all right, we’re disgusting but we’re civilized.”
What is this instinct women have to accommodate pain?
