Weyward
"As if Kate herself is something to be unwrapped, to be torn open."
"Fiction became a friend as well as a safe harbor; a cocoon to protect her from the outside world and it's dangers."
"She hadn't expected that love -- if this was what she felt -- to be so similar to fear."
"[But]she needn't have worried. Now, worlds, characters, even sentences linger -- burning like beacons in her brain. Reminding her that she's not alone."
"For this was a word (witch) invented by men, a word that brings power to those who speak it, not those it describes. A word that builds gallows and pyres, turns breathing women into corpses."
"'But what could Reverend Goode be afraid of?'my mother smiled. 'Us,' she said, 'Women.'"
"The tiredness makes her feel as if her bones have been sucked of their marrow."
"I did not hide my face in my hands again."
"But now it burns bright in her blood. Fury. For herself. And for the women that came before. Things will be different for her daughter. She'll make sure of it. And that means she has to be brave."
"Perhaps if someone reads this, if someone speaks my name after my body has rotted in the earth, I will live on."
"But she isn't a monster, and never was. She was a child -- just nine years old -- with nothing in her heart but love and wonder."
"There are enough men in the world already,"
"Perhaps one day, she said, there would be a safer time. When women could walk the earth, shining bright with power, and yet live."
"The panic is rising, Except it isn't panic. Kate knows now. It never was. The feeling of something trying to get out. Rage, hot and bright in her chest. Not panic. Power. No. She was not nothing."
"Altha is there, in the spiders that danced across the floor. Violet is there, in the mayflies that glisten and undulate like some great silver snake. And all the other Weyward women, from the first of their line, are there too. They have always been with her, and always will be."
"After all, I am a Weyward, and wild inside."
"Powerless, once she had robbed him of his only weapon: her fear."
"'The connection between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet' - Adrienne Rich"