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“Under all that charred wreckage was the heartwood. Bruised. Scarred. But still good. Still capable of growth. When she looked in the mirror, she no longer saw a victim, but a survivor.”
― Gwen Mitchell, Rain of Ash

tags: growth, inner-strength, scars, struggle, survivor, survivors, survivorship

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“Changing the currents of Fate, even by accident, comes at a heavy price.”
― Gwen Mitchell, Rain of Ash

tags: destiny, fate, foresight, future, oracle, premonition, time-travel, witches

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#3

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: scars, souls, suffering

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#4

“Another thing about pain - it renders you incapable of bullshit.”
― Gwen Mitchell, Cloak of Deceit

tags: gritty, pain, sass, snark

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#5

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: books, magic, magic-books

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#6

“Kean: You know, if it was just the two of us, we would be doing this moonclad, Bri.
Bri: Moonclad?
Astrid: Naked. Where do you think the term 'mooning' came from? Our people practically invented streaking. But you'll have plenty of opportunities to profane our ancient rituals later, Kean. For now, I don't want your hairy ass anywhere near my cornbread.
Kean: You're never gonna let me live that one down, huh?”
― Gwen Mitchell, Rain of Ash

tags: humor, magic, rituals, suspense, witch-humor, witches

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#7

“Looking down from the heavens, she saw how small, and yet how important each human life is. Drops in the bucket of eternity. She saw her minute place in the organic machine of the Cosmos, witnessed the give and take and the slow, steady swinging of life's pendulum. The world relies on order, pattern, and repetition. The earth spins and swings around the sun with rational, mathematical predictability.

But she also saw the chaotic nature of things. No matter what, you can never know with certainty what will happen. Lightening can strike, the ground can open up and swallow you, and the very air you breathe can tear your life away.”
― Gwen Mitchell, Rain of Ash

tags: chaos, destiny, karma, life, meaning-of-life, order, universe

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#8

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#9

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder

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#10

“Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, In the Night Garden

tags: miracles, princes, witches

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#11

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

tags: magic

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#12

“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: humor, men, witchcraft, witches, women

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#13

“The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.”
― Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

tags: wicca, witch, witchcraft, witches

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#14

“Words came to her from outside of memory; they fluttered against her heart like a rush of wings and soared from her voice in a song she'd never known. A song she'd always known. She hummed the incantation, and the force of magic behind it erupted in a crescendo through her blood. Every cell in her body vibrated with pure joy. I have lived this before. This is my destiny. I am Zyne.”
― Gwen Mitchell, Rain of Ash

tags: blood-magic, destiny, fate, magic, spells, witches

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#15

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

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#16

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#17

“When in doubt, go to the library.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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#18

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books

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#19

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

tags: hope, hopelessness, magic

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#20

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: joy, poetry, sorrow

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#21

“Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: inspirational

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#22

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

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#23

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake

tags: love

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#24

“The first thing you need to learn is that an Oracle must choose very carefully how they influence the future. Sometimes a tiny ripple in the now can cause a huge drift. The future is never set, you see, it changes with every choice we make. And changing the larger currents of Fate, even by accident, comes at a heavy price.”
― Gwen Mitchell, Rain of Ash

tags: destiny, fate, future-prediction, oracle

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#25

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
― John Keats

tags: environment, nature, poetry

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#26

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: books, learning, love, serenity

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#27

“Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: art, child, face, mother, nature

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#28

“A noble type of good.
Heroic womanhood. ”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#29

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

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#30

“The weight of his words settled in the pit of my stomach. Old fears and worries stirred in the depths of my thoughts. How I wanted to believe him, to trust him, to love him. But the flip side of the wild desire to give him everything was the chilling knowledge of what usually happened when I followed my heart, or my body — both of which wanted to surrender to Julian utterly.”
― Gwen Mitchell, Cloak of Deceit

tags: love, risking-love, vulnerability

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