Lina J. Potter Quotes

In this world, women held a position somewhere between horses and cows. Aristocratic women were slightly better off.

When the inner light of the soul shone through like that, the shape of nose or ears became unimportant. She was shining, and it looked almost like a miracle.

In her previous life, Aliya had read somewhere that technology should never be allowed to outrun morality. Otherwise, the clock will strike Armageddon, and both God and the Devil will turn tail and run.

So that's how it was. Palaces, kings... and thugs like that, who, like locusts, move from one century to another.

The corner of the witch's mouth twitched. "My remedy can bring a soul back into the body, but it won't work if the soul doesn't want to stay. Do you understand?

Even the strongest man needed a place where he could rest. Even the strongest woman needed the knowledge that she was not alone, that she had a strong shoulder to lean on.

The first thing Aliya felt was pain.
And the second.
And the third.

A last, despairing thought shot through Aliya's mind, Is this it? I don't want to die! I want to live! Then everything went dark.

How much do we lose because we are young and stupid?

She was a woman, not a workhorse.

technology should never be allowed to outrun morality.

She was not the type of woman to keep a lover. A man would have to work hard day and night to even gain her notice. She was intelligent, strong, interesting, and even a little bit mysterious.

There were just four things a woman could be (five at most): daughter, wife, mother, widow, and slut. That was it. There were no other roles for them - no free and independent women, no feminism, no selfsufficiency. If you didn't like it, you could be branded a witch and executed.

People generally forget the things they are ashamed of, but no one ever forgets an insult.