book meme :// white is for witching by helen oyeyemi ( lightly edited to fit structure; change pronouns as necessary. )
you’ve done too much now. i can’t trust you any more.
what else is real about you?
why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them?
black wells yield only black water.
there is another shelter inside the house.
i don’t need you to be strong. i need you to crack a little now.
i suppose i am frightening.
so i have done you good, and now, some harm.
things appear as they really are. people appear as they really are.
this house is bigger than you know.
did you choose to be good, or were you so created?
i am only tangible when you don’t look.
easy to see the solution when you’re not in the story, isn’t it?
i know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things who don’t have names.
it’s like there’s an extra window, an extra room i haven’t seen before.
maybe “i don’t believe in you” is the cruelest way to kill a monster.
please tell me a story about someone who gets away.
i’m not sure what’s really meant by happy or good. i would like them to be free.
all monsters deserve to die.
how is consumption managed?
everything you have i will turn against you. i’ll turn sugar bitter for you.
it seems to me that the dead only return for love or revenge.
there is absolutely no one even a bit like you anywhere else.
there’s something wrong with this house, isn’t there?
i’m trying to think of next year and there is no place for me in it.
what happened that night?
madness is present when everything you see and hear takes on an equal significance.