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“It is challenging to obtain blue colorants from nature, but the fungi kingdom is unique in that it offers a rare blue-producing pigment found nowhere else in nature.”
― Julie Beeler, The Mushroom Color Atlas: A Guide to Dyes and Pigments Made from Fungi

“Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“Roman skepticism and piety were close bedfellows, so perhaps it was considered foolish to believe every in legend, even when tradition demanded an outward show of devotion.”
― Mab Borden, Ancient Roman Holidays

“Your success cannot lie in something so tedious as whether you’re liked.”
― Alyssa Cole, How to Catch a Queen