The surface Breaks

I've never cared for beauty. Beauty fades, there's no loyalty in it. My mother told me it was better to cultivate my wit, my intelligence. If I'd had a daughter, I would have told her the same. I would have made her strong. A woman needs to be strong to survive.

It is your father who has insisted on calling me a "witch". That is simply a term that men give women who are not afraid of them, women who refuse to do as they are told.

Love is never unnatural, no matter whom you decide to give it to.

Living true is the most important thing any woman can do.

You think I live in the Shadowlands because I fear his strength ? No, little one. I live in the dark because I can be true there, and living true is the most important thing any woman can do.

You notice a lot of things when you are forced to stay quiet.

There was no one there to hear them scream no. Or maybe there was; but that no wasn't deemed worthy of being heard.