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“But what the world fails to realize is that a villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.”
― Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell

“The occult community he had in mind was the usual New Age, crystal-gazing, tarot-turning, palm-reading crowd you see in any large city. Most of them were harmless, and many had at least a little ability at magic. Add in a dash of feng-shui artists, season liberally with Wiccans of a variety of flavors and sincerities, blend in a few modestly gifted practitioners who liked mixing religion with their magic, some followers of voodoo, a few Santerians and a sprinkling of Satanists, all garnished with a crowd of young people who liked to wear a lot of black, and you get what most folks think of as the “occult community.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“He bared his teeth, white against his dark skin. “How long have you been a Wiccan?” “A what?” “A pagan. A witch.” “I’m not a witch,” I said, glancing out the door. “I’m a wizard.” Sanya frowned. “What is the difference?” “Wizard has a Z.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“With all due respect, what you read is more important in the long term than the man you marry, ma chère Madame.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“As long as she doesn’t turn out too smart for men.” “For the stupid ones, she will, Madame. But who wants them anyway? A stupid man is every woman’s downfall.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Give me the books that are kind to me, and to hell with the men who don’t give a damn about me.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“And any mistake was reasonable if backed up by conviction.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“My dear son, when you’re a woman and you get married, you enter irreversibly into a supervisory position. You have to keep an eye on everything—what your husband does and how he is. And later, when children arrive, on them too. You’re a watchdog, a servant and a diplomat rolled into one. And something as trivial as divorce doesn’t end that. Oh no—love may come and go, but the caring goes on.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“She was not a creature of courage, but she was one of spite.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“After that, she wondered, how improper was it — really — to slap a man in the face for staring?”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“He smiled broadly, the easily confident smile of a young man entitled to the world. What a slappable face he had. She would enjoy that. Or, better, waking him up in the middle of the night, marching him for an hour in the cold with no shoes on, and then reminding him to be polite. Evelyn said nothing, and the lieutenant nodded at his men, who led Evelyn into her future husband’s keep.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“Magic was at its core, she said, a kind of madness. It was a willingness to look at the corporeal world and to see it only as the story up to that point. That everything that followed could be changed. Rocks fell because the belief that they would fall was so strong. But that belief wasn’t binding. It didn’t have to be binding anyway. For a price.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea