Kara Sekely

“transmutation. She saw the memory through his eyes. And what she saw, for the first time, was not ugliness at all but pain so enormous and consuming that it had felt like dying. I’m sorry, she said silently to her past self. I’m sorry I hated you. I’m sorry I wasn’t kinder. All the shame that had been tangled up in the memory was annihilated, leaving only compassion and regret in its place.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“Spend a bit more time with todays and a bit less time with yesterdays and tomorrows.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“Theirs was a friendship built on the unspoken, shared understanding that you can love the home you’ve made with the whole of your heart and still know the land it’s built on will never claim you.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“If this makes you wonder whether the joys and pain of a place wash away as the floodwaters rise and swallow, I can tell you they do not. The landscapes of our youths create us, and we carry them within us, storied by all they gave and stole, in who we become.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River