The Last of the Moon Girls Quotes

“it is never a kindness to allow a lie to stand, however hard the pursuit of the truth may be. In the end, light is the only thing that has ever chased away darkness—the only thing that ever will. Seek truth in all things,”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“We plan our lives like we’re in charge, lay all the pieces end to end like we think they should go, and then zing! Something happens we never saw coming, and we end up somewhere else. Sometimes it’s right back where we started.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“the truth is incapable of real harm. It is we who do harm, when we refuse to face what is real, because it’s uncomfortable or inconvenient.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“Bridges can be built across the widest chasms, even when all we have to build with are broken pieces. “It’s time to stop punishing”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“I’ve lived a good many years, and seen a good many things, and one thing I know to be true is that we are all scarred, all broken in our own way. Some of us may break more quietly than others, but break we all do, when this world dishes out its worst.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“It’s easier to be prickly than to be vulnerable, to distract with harsh words rather than show our bruises. But we must do the hard things. That is the work of healing.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“Bees are like people, little girl. They attack when they feel threatened—when they’re afraid. It’s the same for us. It’s always the things we fear that sting us in the end. The things we hide from or push against. When we drop the fear—the resistance—things take their course in a more natural and painless way.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“For the women . . . Healers of hearts, Workers of light, Makers of magick.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“Family isn’t always about blood. Sometimes you just recognize someone. That’s how it was with your gran and me. We were kin. A special kind of kin.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“It’s what friends do for each other—give care.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“We upset the balance, you see, because we walk our own path and live our own truth. It’s always been a rough road for those who live differently from the herd.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“We do need to go home from time to time, but only to remind us why we left in the first place, so we can get clear on what we do want.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“She had known instinctively that fragrance was its own kind of medicine, that its natural abilities to elevate mood and evoke emotion could be enormously effective in restoring a sense of well-being.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“That’s all healing is—trusting the magick, and sharing a little of it when you can.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“But I understand now that there are an infinite number of paths in this life. Some are well traveled, others must be forged. But none should be walked with a guilty or bitter heart.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“I’ve lived a good many years, and seen a good many things, and one thing I know to be true is that we are all scarred, all broken in our own way. Some of us may break more quietly than others, but break we all do, when this world dishes out its worst. It’s part of the journey we all came here to make, the stings and losses all part of our walk. But we can rise above those wounds if we choose. If we’re willing to let down our guard, to look beyond the flaws and the shortcomings, to what lies beneath.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“Just because you can’t see her doesn’t mean she isn’t here.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“Still, there’s a kind of peace at the end of a life well lived, knowing that you’ve given what you had to give, loved where you were free to love, that you’ve left nothing unsaid or undone. And with this final entry, that part at least will be true. But this isn’t meant to be about my story, Lizzy—it’s meant to be about yours. Each of us comes into the world with a story to tell, a book of blank pages we’re given to fill. How we choose to fill them is up to us, but fill them we must—with our truths or someone else’s. History”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“Because you understood that what isn’t real can’t hurt you. Illusions have no power—unless we insist on clinging to them. Then they become a warped kind of truth, a story we settle for because we prefer to remain in the dark with the monsters we know, rather than face new ones. That’s why the worst truths—the ones that do the most harm—are those we refuse to face. We prefer falsehoods and half-truths, inventions meant to gloss over things we don’t wish to see. But knowing half a thing is to not know it at all. We tell ourselves the price of truth is simply too high, that it’s better to leave a thing alone in the name of peace than to inflict pain in the name of truth. But that kind of peace comes at a price.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“Calendula . . . for the healing of scars.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“But it is never a kindness to allow a lie to stand, however hard the pursuit of the truth may be. In the end, light is the only thing that has ever chased away darkness—the only thing that ever will. Seek truth in all things, my dearest girl. There can be no healing without it.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“No sacred ritual or initiation is required to become what we already are—bits of god and stardust held together by divine breath and pure love.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“The world has always been afraid of a singular woman—as it is of most powerful things.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“We need no church, no graven image, no rules scratched on stone tablets or ancient scrolls. No sacred ritual or initiation is required to become what we already are—bits of god and stardust held together by divine breath and pure love.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“But in the right hands, with the proper care, even the most fragile thing can withstand hardship and, in the end, yield a new kind of beauty—and so many lessons.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“Rosemary, for remembrance. Basil, for courage. Thyme, for warding off nightmares. It”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“Love—even love that cannot be returned—is never cause for regret.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“That’s why the worst truths—the ones that do the most harm—are those we refuse to face.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“there are an infinite number of paths in this life. Some are well traveled, others must be forged. But none should be walked with a guilty or bitter heart.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“had taken comfort in that”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls