ZT-1261
1223
She-troth
Though seldom celibate, witches seldom kept company more than a night or two with any man, and it was a rare thing for a witch to marry a man. Far more often two of them lived their lives together, and that was called witch marriage or she-troth. A witch’s child, then, had a mother or two mothers, but no father. That went without saying…
~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind
1242
1214
A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
~Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu
Image: Acrylic paint on stone by Rebel XVIII
Gull, Boiler Bay, OR
1212
Alcohol ink on glass by LVL
1186
‘I think,’ Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, ‘that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.’
~Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind
ZT 1202
Rebel XIII 
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