The Witch Haven (The Witch Haven, #1)

by Sasha Peyton Smith

My mother once told me a girl’s success in this world was dependent on how well she could pretend.

If thousands of years of history have taught us one thing, it is that the world is not kind to women who possess power.

“Women are supposed to be competent at everything, but experts at nothing. Haven’t you heard?”

Nothing. It’s for your own good.” “That seems to be an excuse only ever given to women,”

The women in this room exist only in their relationship to men: mothers, daughters, wives. But the men are simply men, and their power is never stronger than when they give themselves a fancy room, a podium, and a seemingly endless supply of cash.

I think the only choice any of us has is to take our pain and make a world that hurts its inhabitants a little less.

Death is senseless, but perhaps life doesn’t have to be.