Priestess Quotes

“My voice was timid and I asked, “that is when you knew you loved me?” He turned back to me, eyes sharp. “No. That is when I knew I would never not love you. That is when I knew I would be in love with my wife for the remainder of my winters, until my death and if spirits and ghosts exist, then I would also be in love thereafter.”
― Kara Voorhees Reynolds, Priestess

“felt, at that age, if time could put lines on my face, I could put them on my body.”
― Kara Voorhees Reynolds, Priestess

“You never ask. You never ask for life. You always ask for the smallest portion. Ask for your return, girl. Claim your life for once. Do not bargain with it, the inevitable end of it always in mind. Ask for the whole of it. It breaks your goddess’s heart to watch you see it as worthless, as nothing but fodder for sacrifice.”
― Kara Voorhees Reynolds, Priestess

“My mother says all women are mothers in different ways, that we all give birth, just not all to children. She says some women give birth to revolutions, to movements, to sanctuary, to art, to brilliance.”
― Kara Voorhees Reynolds, Priestess

“And I was not immune to the heady awareness one has when an inscrutable beholder wants to behold you.”
― Kara Voorhees Reynolds, Priestess