Root Magic Quotes

“All skin folk ain’t kinfolk.”
― Eden Royce, Root Magic

“Gran used to say hurt wasn’t like a splinter that might work itself out after a while, it was a boil that had to be lanced—the hurt had to leak out before it could heal up.”
― Eden Royce, Root Magic

“If no one tells the stories anymore, if no one learns the magic anymore, our ways will disappear from the world. Then all we’ll have is what other people think of us.”
― Eden Royce, Root Magic

“These tears were the last things I’d ever be able to give my grandmother, and I wanted her to have all I had.”
― Eden Royce, Root Magic

“If no one tell's the stories anymore, if no one learns the magic anymore, our ways will disappear from the world. Then all we'll have left is what other people think of us.”
― Eden Royce, Root Magic