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21 " Sin has many tools, but a lie has a handle to fit them all. "
― Ami McKay , The Birth House
22 " Ne laissez aucun mal à s’abattre sur nous. Let no evil befall us. "
― Ami McKay , The Witches of New York
23 " If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that’s as dear to life as breathing. "
24 " If there ever was a place where one could start again, it was Manhattan. Move a block, and your enemies become your friends. Move ten blocks and you might never see anyone you knew again. "
25 " The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort of air from the rest of the world, a breeze piped into their homes from above the clouds, so clean you had to pay for it. "
― Ami McKay , The Virgin Cure
26 " There's no match for the sweetness independence brings. "
27 " Aunt Fran lowered her voice. "Her cold is just the start of a greater sickness. These 'stories,' as you call them, will only lead her to more pain.""Fran, talk plain, will you?""I'm talking about derangement.""Don't be silly!"She wispered. "And deviant behaviours. "
28 " While it might be fashionable for a lady to attend a publuc lecture on the afterlife, or participate in a seance from time to time, claiming to have seen a ghost yourself does not go down well in polite circles. "
29 " Heart throbs- yes, heart throbs of happiness, heart throbs of courage, heart throbs that make us feel better. Those things that appeal to others; that note of inspiration laid aside--bring it forth and let us make a magazine that will speak the language of the heart as well as of the mind. "
― Ami McKay
30 " What do you want? Love. Well, love gets what she wants one way or another. "
31 " Let that be a lesson to you,” her mother had said, wagging her finger at her daughter. “Those who use magic to find what they seek may not always like what they find. "
32 " After she’d collected all she wanted, the Bird Lady would sit on a bench with needle and thread and sew her precious scraps into paper stars and give them away to any passerby who bothered to approach her. To most, the shabby tokens were nothing more than trash, but Eleanor had kept every star the Bird Lady had ever given her. She planned to string them in a garland and hang them in the shop window come Christmas. Every fold, every stitch the woman made, was filled with care and thought; somehow the Bird Lady found meaning in what the rest of the world tossed away. "
33 " Words are an unreliable way to measure the heart“, she said. “I’m more inclined to trust what I observe rather than what someone tells me. "
34 " When do I get to say whatever I wish?” “When it pains you not to,” her mother had replied. “What if I’m too scared?” “All the more reason to speak your mind. "
35 " All you need to know about men is this - they have a great need to put their cock into whatever hole they find. "
36 " Kissin’ the dirt’s the only way you’ll see heaven. "
37 " Each morning you set your sights on the tasks ahead and hope that when the day is done you’re farther along than when you started. "
38 " The wall between the men’s and women’s rooms was built like a fortress, and solid bars covered the windows—they’d been put there by the proprietors to protect the girls’ honour. Instead they’d served as a death sentence. Isn’t that always the way, Mrs. Fisher had thought, man’s fears causing him to do things that lead to far greater sins. "
39 " Someday what’s easy might not be enough, "
40 " No matter what you do—somebody, somewheres, knew that you would. "