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"James Juniper is just a girl, most of the time. The rest of the Sisters of Avalon are just maids or mill workers, dancers or fortune-tellers, mothers or daughters. Everyday sorts of women with everyday sorts of lives, not worth mentioning in any story worth telling.

But tonight, beneath the Rose Moon of June, they are witches. They are crones and maidens, villains and temptress, and all stories belong to them."

"You're here because you want more for yourselves, better for your daughters. Because it's easy to ignore a woman...But a hell of a lot harder to ignore a witch."

"There are times one must accept the aid of darkness in order to contain a greater darkness."

The end of part one. I am so far loving this one! The focus on witchcraft and the correlation between this and female equality in society is so interesting to explore.

I love how this includes well-known fairy tales, inside the larger story presented, but with some feminist and unique spins.

"Witching and women's rights. Suffrage and spells... They're both a kind of power, aren't they? The kind we aren't allowed to have."

“Every woman draws a circle around herself. Sometimes she has to be the only thing inside it.”

Starting each day with a few pages dedicated to self-improvement has proven to make my days that much more happier and productive.

"Fear was a concept for men without guns. Fear was reserved for people like Alisa, small and slight and always looking over her shoulder.

If Lord Montagov was afraid, the rules were changing."

I fell far from my goal of finishing this book before 2020 concluded but at least I am fairly certain that I am beginning the new year with a 5-star read.

"There was something unique about the silence that reigned those nights - a mixture of peace and the haunting but strangely beguiling notion that he was all alone during those nocturnal strolls, as if some quiet, otherworldly occurrence had caused everyone but him to peacefully vanish, leaving behind a skeleton world where Jespar was the only one still alive. A boy sleepwalking on the bottom of the ocean."

"Pawns let themselves be done to, masters do. You can have all the riches in the world and still be a pawn, or you can be a fisherman and be a master. It's all a question of the right mindset."

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE 🎅🤶🎄🎁🎉🥳💟

Wishing you all a wonderful day, a great end to 2020, and an even better beginning in 2021.

"The mind is a malleable thing. Soil if you're feeling poetic. Depending on the seed, anything will grow in it, from graceful gardens to idyllic meadows, from weedy forests to foggy swamps. Harmonious or chaotic, peaceful or perilous, healthy or ill. It's all a matter of seeds."

What an opening paragraph!

Wait! What? How did this book get so good so fast?

"It's always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can you love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly."

"You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until someone stands behind you and says, "It's okay, you can fall down now. I'll catch you."
So I fell down."

"People think that intimacy is about sex.
But intimacy is about truth.
When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is "You're safe with me" - that's intimacy."

It is literally in the title that Evelyn has seven husbands and yet here I am, so caught up in the story and the emotion that I'm shocked when a marriage doesn't work out.

"Here's the thing about Hollywood. It's both a place and a feeling."

“It is not such a hard thing, is it—to die for your friends.”

I don't think I'm ready for this!

"The Queen of Flame and Shadow, the Heir of Fire, Aelin of the Wildfire,
Fireheart…
She burned through each title, even as she became them."

The name, roared into the core of flame at the heart of the world, was a
beacon, a summons. She’d been born waiting to hear that voice, had blindly sought it her whole life, would follow it unto the ending of all thing—
“AELIN.”

“You will find, Rolfe, that one does not deal with Celaena Sardothien. One survives her.”

"Fire could destroy—but also cleanse."

"destroying a symbol can break the spirits of men as much as bloodshed.”

“I am the force of creation...I am the end and the beginning. The world is a painting and I hold the brush. I am a god.”

“You can still love your weapons... You can beat them into shape and then watch them destroy themselves and know that it was all fully necessary, but that doesn’t mean you can’t love them, too.”

"She was dirt. Her army was dirt. But dirt was common, ubiquitous, patient, and necessary. The soil gave life to the country. And the earth always reclaimed what it was owed."

"You aren't made. The world is."