Danielle

“Now they really talking crazy. “How can there be more than one tomorrow?”

Auntie Margaret sighs. “Girl, every choice we make is a new tomorrow. Whole worlds waiting to be born.”

“In some, you accept the enemy’s offer, and all is darkness,” Auntie Ondine says. “Always at this point—the tip of the sword on which your world balances.”

I look at Auntie Jadine. What could those things living under Butcher Clyde’s skin offer me to make me betray all I care about?

Power over life and death.

“And if I don’t accept this offer, then we win? No more Ku Kluxes?”

“If you don’t accept,” Auntie Ondine answers, “there is the chance to continue the struggle. The hope at one day seeing victory. No more.”

That don’t seem fair.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

“When you’re anxious to learn something and need to get better as quickly as possible…the solution is to make it part of your daily life. After all, there’s no greater teacher than life itself.”
― Kamome Shirahama, Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 2

“There are all sorts of barriers out there that you never even notice unless they affect you personally.”
― Kamome Shirahama, とんがり帽子のアトリエ 8 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 8]

“Just look and see. Find the shape the problem and difficulties around you take. Stare at them head on, and you’ll find endless ways to solve them. There’s an answer waiting to be fashioned. Every time.”
― Kamome Shirahama, とんがり帽子のアトリエ 8 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 8]