Magical Midlife Challenge Quotes

“Shrug off the cloak of other people’s expectations and rise to your true potential. No one can tear you down if you refuse to let them.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“overwhelmed. Ready to crack. They’re expected to not just keep the wheels on the bus but construct the bloody thing, too. Then drive it. And wash it. And change the oil. I don’t know how they don’t just randomly start punching people. I would. What do they get fer their trouble? Ignored. What bollocks. I hear it all the time. Do it all, do it perfectly, and your reward is to be ignored. Is it any wonder they all feel, deep down, like they are failing? It makes me bloody furious. I tell these women all the time, I say, ‘Love, you just need to burn it all to the ground.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“Men do love to create stories about women ruining everythin’,” Niamh drawled, “and yet they’re the ones in power. They create wars and famine and burn women at the stake. Methinks we’re pointin’ fingers at the wrong villains…”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“It’s easier in the beginning, definitely. But your problems will always catch up to you. The longer you avoid them, the worse your reunion with them will be.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“They had learned to be predators. He’d been born one.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“It is hard to set off on one’s own. You always wonder if you did the right thing. In unsure moments, insecure moments, you seek validation. You try to push other people onto your path to prove it was the right one.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“It was the joy of having someone look after me the way I’d looked after others all my life. It was his way of making me feel safe in a world that had always treated me like prey.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“the wheels on the bus but construct the bloody thing, too. Then drive it. And wash it. And change the oil. I don’t know how they don’t just randomly start punching people. I would. What do they get fer their trouble? Ignored. What bollocks. I hear it all the time. Do it all, do it perfectly, and your reward is to be ignored. Is it any wonder they all feel, deep down, like they are failing? It makes me bloody furious. I tell these women all the time, I say, ‘Love, you just need to burn it all to the ground.’ They always laugh. They don’t take me seriously.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“Mothers never seem to feel like they are doing enough, do they? They tell me these stories, and I always think, the poor cratur! They juggle a million things at once, seems like. They’re always overwhelmed. Ready to crack. They’re expected to not just keep”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“It is hard to set off on one’s own. You always wonder if you did the right thing. In unsure moments, insecure moments, you seek validation. You try to push other people onto your path to prove it was the right one. This is what he is doing. He is trying to force us to join his journey.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“Mothers never seem to feel like they are doing enough, do they? They tell me these stories, and I always think, the poor cratur! They juggle a million things at once, seems like. They’re always”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“Compared to Austin’s pack, they looked absolutely ridiculous. It was perfect.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“People are concerned about clowns, Jessie is worried about the killer dolls, but I honestly think a vampire who makes lopsided doilies is the real trouble spot in this situation.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“Sure I am showing team spirit,” Niamh said. “I’ve got an Ivy House doily, a beer, and a front-row seat. I’m all set. Now feck off. Yer ruinin’ the taste of me beer.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“Mothers never seem to feel like they are doing enough, do they? They tell me these stories, and I always think, the poor cratur! They juggle a million things at once, seems like. They’re always overwhelmed. Ready to crack. They’re expected to not just keep the wheels on the bus but construct the bloody thing, too. Then drive it. And wash it. And change the oil. I don’t know how they don’t just randomly start punching people. I would. What do they get fer their trouble? Ignored. What bollocks. I hear it all the time. Do it all, do it perfectly, and your reward is to be ignored. Is it any wonder they all feel, deep down, like they are failing? It makes me bloody furious. I tell these women all the time, I say, ‘Love, you just need to burn it all to the ground.’ They always laugh. They don’t take me seriously.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“If I couldn’t trust him, I couldn’t trust anyone, and that wasn’t freedom. That was a prison of fear, and it wasn’t how I would go through life.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“Excessive drinking and an overall disregard for social conformity aside, she does know her stuff. No, we’ll be okay.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“Mothers never seem to feel like they are doing enough, do they? They tell me these stories, and I always think, the poor cratur! They juggle a million things at once, seems like. They’re always overwhelmed. Ready to crack. They’re expected to not just keep the wheels on”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“Your magic just adds to you—it didn’t create you. Everything it needs to thrive was already there. Don’t think of it as a separate entity; think of it as a dormant part of you, rarely used.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“I’ve never had a man make it his personal duty to ensure my happiness. Like it was his job. Like it was his favorite job.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“Mothers never seem to feel like they are doing enough, do they? They tell me these stories, and I always think, the poor cratur! They juggle a million things at once, seems like. They’re always overwhelmed. Ready to crack. They’re expected to not just keep the wheels on the bus but construct the bloody thing, too. Then drive it. And wash it. And change the oil. I don’t know how they don’t just randomly start punching people. I would. What do they get fer their trouble? Ignored. What bollocks. I hear it all the time. Do it all, do it perfectly, and your reward is to be ignored. Is it any wonder they all feel, deep down, like they are failing? It makes me bloody furious. I tell these women all the time, I say, ‘Love,”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“Mothers never seem to feel like they are doing enough, do they? They tell me these stories, and I always think, the poor cratur! They juggle a million things at once, seems like. They’re always overwhelmed. Ready to crack. They’re expected to not just keep the wheels on the bus but construct the bloody thing, too. Then drive it. And wash it. And change the oil. I don’t know how they don’t just randomly start punching people.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge

“Then run into that darkness without looking back,” he said, gently stroking his thumb along my jaw, “and know that I will never allow you to lose yourself to it. Your gargoyle will never keep you from me. Nothing on this earth could. Nothing but death.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Challenge