Magical Midlife Awakening Quotes

“He’d always made me question myself. It was why I was now so relieved when Mr. Tom picked out crucial outfits or Nessa helped me accessorize. Clearly, I was still worried I’d get it wrong. I’d done exactly as Mimi had said and dulled myself to ensure his approval. That, to me, was knocking it out of the park. Unsettled and a little confused, I blinked stupidly for a moment. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognizing the reflection in the glass.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“I let my hands hang limply at my sides as he hugged me close. “I hate you,” I said with a pout. “You hate losing arguments.” “That’s what I said.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“How do you do that?” I asked, mystified. “Magic,” Ivy House responded. “Are you worried I’m going to learn how and then burn you down?” “Now I am, yes.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“But we don’t have time for those kinds of games, do we? No, we do not. We will wear whatever we want, whenever we want, and we will do it with style.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“I always failed,” I said. “I never got the timing of these things right, even if it seemed like I had. But he told her the opposite, the same way he was always telling me that his mom was so accomplished. They’re head games. His way of making us feel crappy about ourselves so that we try and try. We try to please, as is our nature, but our confidence stays low because we always fail. Sometimes in big ways, sometimes in small ways, but we always fail.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“But they are so charming at first,” she went on, picking up a sparkly diamond necklace Austin had bought me a few months ago for no other reason than he thought I might like it. She draped it around my neck and fixed the clasp. “They compliment you endlessly, fawn all over you, tell you you’re pretty… The manipulation is gradual. First they blame you for something innocuous. Then they start telling you to calm down when you call them on something they did, or they ignore you when they think you’re behaving badly. They pick at you for the very things they once praised you for, right? ‘Why are you wearing so much makeup? Are you trying to entice other men?’ I got that one a lot. Or ‘Why are you so dressed up? You look like a slut.’ He got his hooks into me, bro. In the thick of it, he made me start to question reality. He gaslit the fuck out of me. Excuse my language.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“It ended up being two, because he never felt like we got enough out of quickies and had trouble tearing himself away. I almost always gave in because I was just as insatiable when it came to him. I suspected I was now stuck in my sexual peak with a man I ardently loved. Our desire for each other would very likely not wane for quite some time. After years of having a subpar sex life, I was totally okay with that.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“Wear what you want,” Mimi said softly, as though I needed to be handled with care. “Be confident in yourself. You’ll never please others if you can’t first please yourself.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“It is better to know how love feels, how to give yourself to someone, how to form intimacy and create memories, than to travel through a cold life alone.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“That man”—I pointed down at him, to where he’d rolled up into a ball with Broken Sue standing over him aggressively—“has been touching and groping the women in these parties for years. Every one of you knows it. Austin is the only one who has ever stood up for any of us. The only one in…years. What is wrong with you people that you’d allow someone like this in here? There are no little girls at this party, but they’re at other parties he attends. And yet you keep inviting this predator calling himself Uncle Ramous? Have you no shame? Have you no desire to do what is right and protect each other?”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“Stop tearing other women down to feel better about yourselves. It doesn’t help you, and it makes other women miserable. Build each other up. We should be sticking together and supporting each other. It makes us stronger. Enough strength and we’ll be invincible.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“Be confident in yourself. You’ll never please others if you can’t first please yourself.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“If I meant match, I would have said match. There are a great many matches in the world, and candles that will steal their flame. But there is only one mate, and he is not it. Find your mate, as the miss has done. Find your mate so you may find your happiness in love. Until then, find happiness in yourself.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“We will wear whatever we want, whenever we want, and we will do it with style. And just look.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening

“I took a shuddering breath, wanting to go back to my youth and take that girl by the shoulders and tell her to raise hell. To fight back. To run.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Awakening