Rebecca M

“Whatever she tried, my spells would hold. Not even Odysseus could talk his way past witchcraft. He had talked his way past the witch instead.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire”
― C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

“Nina worried she liked being alone too much; it was the only time she ever fully relaxed. People were . . . exhausting. They made her anxious. Leaving her apartment every morning was the turning over of a giant hourglass, the mental energy she’d stored up overnight eroding grain by grain. She refueled during the day by grabbing moments of solitude and sometimes felt her life was a long-distance swim between islands of silence. She enjoyed people—she really did—she just needed to take them in homeopathic doses; a little of the poison was the cure.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“It’s a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It’s every princess for herself.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever