Beth > Beth's Quotes

“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
― Percival Everett, James

“As if tears aren’t always a sign of unbearable weakness, like they are when you’re half human in a world of full witches. As if maybe, sometimes, they’re no more and no less than a sign of too many things to feel at once and no words for them.”
― Hazel Beck, Truly Madly Magically