“Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem.”
— Emily Croy Barker
“And now it turns out that women can’t even talk like men. Which is a clever way to invalidate women’s discourse, isn’t it? No wonder women can’t do magic; no wonder spirits won’t listen to their puny, trivial, voices. It’s all woven into the basic structure of the language.”
— Emily Croy Barker
“No, the magic doesn’t wear off at midnight. It’s much more powerful than that. It comes from you. You wanted something, and so it came to be.”
— Emily Croy Barker
“The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief.”
— Emily Croy Barker
“How old did you have to be before you learned the difference between the simulacrum of love and the reality?”
— Emily Croy Barker