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Fate worked that way. Some of what was to come was fixed, true enough, as shown in the lines on your right hand. But the lines on your left hand changed, day by day, for that was the fate you made for yourself.
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.
Who can you trust if not your sister? Who knows your story better than she?
But stories change, depending on who tells them, and stories are nothing if you don’t have someone to tell them to.
“Life is luck.”
In their family a sister was everything, your heart and soul,
but life was short and getting shorter, and sometimes a person needed to simply enjoy himself.
“We who are cursed in love are born to fight that curse in every way we can until the one among us who can break it appears. Until that time, we must love as best we can. Our fates may already be determined, but each day is ours to live as we see fit.”
She could not imagine the world without her sister, who had been wounded terribly in her youth and had still managed to love more, not less.
That is how love worked, Jet had assured Franny. It arrived when you least expected it. But what happened when it disappeared,
but it was women who dealt in magic who were best known for donning red shoes, and the idea of a scarlet woman who did as she pleased made wearing red shoes an act of defiance; they might just take the wearer places she would not otherwise go.
you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold. If you could not accept yourself, you would be reviled and cast out, adrift in the world.
“There are no witches,” Antonia said. “Only people who want to burn them.”
Everything that had been done could not be undone, but what was to come was unknown. Fate could make the best of you or you could make the best of fate,
A woman with knowledge, one who could read and write, and who spoke her own mind had always been considered dangerous.
Antonia had been overwhelmed with what she thought was anger, but what she was actually experiencing was an intense desire to be alive.
What you wind up regretting aren’t the things you do, it’s what you don’t do that you will never forgive yourself for.
When you have a sister, someone knows the story of who you were and who you would always be.
the rules of magic. Harm no one. Know that what you give to the world will come back to you threefold. Fall in love whenever you can.
“Hoping isn’t knowing.” “Isn’t it?”
Read as many books as you can. Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness. Have faith in yourself. Know that love is what matters most.
