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“Black cats can do that to some people: They make them go all shivery and scared and remind them of dark.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“I’m tired of being what everyone else has made me,â€� I said. “I want to be myself.â€� “Don’t be a child.â€� I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. “What?â€� “You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

“Sally didn’t believe a word the aunts said. Still she grew nervous from all this talk of death. Her skin became blotchy; her hair lost its shine. She stopped eating and sleeping and she hated to let Michael out of her sight. Now whenever he kissed her, she cried and wished she had never fallen in love in the first place. It had made her too helpless, because that’s what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“The aunts tried to encourage her not to be so good. Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility. The aunts believed there were more important things to worry about than dust bunnies under the beds or fallen leaves piling up on the porch.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic