“No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.”
―
Ami McKay,
The Birth House
“Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.” ― Ami McKay, The Virgin Cure
“If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.” ― Ami McKay, The Birth House
“She’d always adored autumn storms, from the quiet that came before the rain, when the birds and bugs went silent, to the raucous cracks and grumbles that echoed between the clouds, rife with the possibility of goblins and ghosts.” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.” ― Ami McKay, The Birth House
“Close your eyes and get some rest. We gain new worlds when we sleep. —The Grimoire of Eleanor St. Clair” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“Instead of Rock, Paper, Scissors, you could play Brick, Blanket, Action Fingers, in which brick cripples action fingers, blanket smothers brick and action fingers beats blanket.” ― Nicole McKay Amy Riekhof, A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket
“I love you, McKay. I love you so much it would kill me not to try.” ― Amy Lane, Beneath the Stain
“The time between first and second sleep is neither slumber nor waking. Too much dark and your mind will stay at rest, too much light and your dreams will surely flee. Use this time wisely—for writing spells, summoning spirits, and, most important, remembering your dreams. Queens have been crowned, schemes hatched, fortunes gained, demons defeated, lovers found—all from visions born in the stillness of the night. In dreams, our souls are given the eyes of Fate. Dreams must be encouraged by all possible means. —The Grimoire of Eleanor St. Clair” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“Fortune favors the prepared mind. Beauty seeks attention. Intelligence commands it.” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“May you rise with the sun, ready to make hay.May the rains come at night to wash your cares away. May you sleep with the angels sittin' on your bed.May you be an hour in Heaven a'fore the Devil knows you're dead.” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“Christmas Day has come and gone, the New Year lies ahead. Strange things happen Between the Years, in the days outside of time. Minutes go wild, hours vanish. Idleness becomes a clever thief, stealing the names of the days of the week, muting the steady tick of watches and clocks. These are the hours when angels, ghosts, demons and meddlers ride howling wind and flickering candlelight, keen to stir unguarded hearts and restless minds.” ― Ami McKay, Half Spent Was the Night
“People like the feeling they get when they think they've stumbled upon something miraculous. It's a proven fact.” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her.” ― Ami McKay, The Birth House
“Of course the act of drinking tea was, in and of itself, quite troublesome, as it had been known to lead to all sorts of sins: idleness, gossip, political activity, subversive thinking.” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“It’s a disgusting mess we come through to be born, the sticky-wet of blood and afterbirth, mother wailing, child crying … the helpless soft spot at the top of its head pulsing, waiting to be kissed. Our parents and teachers say it’s a miracle, but it’s not. It’s going to happen no matter what, there’s no choice in the matter. To my mind, a miracle is something that could go one way or another. The fact that something happens, when by all rights it shouldn’t, is what makes us take notice, it’s what saints are made of, it takes the breath away. How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that’s made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead … that’s the miracle.” ― Ami McKay, The Birth House
“Bidden or not, God is here.” ― Ami McKay
“Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy.” ― Ami McKay, The Virgin Cure
“Sin has many tools, but a lie has a handle to fit them all.” ― Ami McKay, The Birth House
“Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.” ― Ami McKay, The Virgin Cure
“If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.” ― Ami McKay, The Birth House
“She’d always adored autumn storms, from the quiet that came before the rain, when the birds and bugs went silent, to the raucous cracks and grumbles that echoed between the clouds, rife with the possibility of goblins and ghosts.” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.” ― Ami McKay, The Birth House
“Close your eyes and get some rest. We gain new worlds when we sleep. —The Grimoire of Eleanor St. Clair” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“Instead of Rock, Paper, Scissors, you could play Brick, Blanket, Action Fingers, in which brick cripples action fingers, blanket smothers brick and action fingers beats blanket.” ― Nicole McKay Amy Riekhof, A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket
“I love you, McKay. I love you so much it would kill me not to try.” ― Amy Lane, Beneath the Stain
“The time between first and second sleep is neither slumber nor waking. Too much dark and your mind will stay at rest, too much light and your dreams will surely flee. Use this time wisely—for writing spells, summoning spirits, and, most important, remembering your dreams. Queens have been crowned, schemes hatched, fortunes gained, demons defeated, lovers found—all from visions born in the stillness of the night. In dreams, our souls are given the eyes of Fate. Dreams must be encouraged by all possible means. —The Grimoire of Eleanor St. Clair” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“Fortune favors the prepared mind. Beauty seeks attention. Intelligence commands it.” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“May you rise with the sun, ready to make hay.May the rains come at night to wash your cares away. May you sleep with the angels sittin' on your bed.May you be an hour in Heaven a'fore the Devil knows you're dead.” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“Christmas Day has come and gone, the New Year lies ahead. Strange things happen Between the Years, in the days outside of time. Minutes go wild, hours vanish. Idleness becomes a clever thief, stealing the names of the days of the week, muting the steady tick of watches and clocks. These are the hours when angels, ghosts, demons and meddlers ride howling wind and flickering candlelight, keen to stir unguarded hearts and restless minds.” ― Ami McKay, Half Spent Was the Night
“People like the feeling they get when they think they've stumbled upon something miraculous. It's a proven fact.” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too just by lookin' at her.” ― Ami McKay, The Birth House
“Of course the act of drinking tea was, in and of itself, quite troublesome, as it had been known to lead to all sorts of sins: idleness, gossip, political activity, subversive thinking.” ― Ami McKay, The Witches of New York
“It’s a disgusting mess we come through to be born, the sticky-wet of blood and afterbirth, mother wailing, child crying … the helpless soft spot at the top of its head pulsing, waiting to be kissed. Our parents and teachers say it’s a miracle, but it’s not. It’s going to happen no matter what, there’s no choice in the matter. To my mind, a miracle is something that could go one way or another. The fact that something happens, when by all rights it shouldn’t, is what makes us take notice, it’s what saints are made of, it takes the breath away. How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that’s made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead … that’s the miracle.” ― Ami McKay, The Birth House
“Bidden or not, God is here.” ― Ami McKay
“Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy.” ― Ami McKay, The Virgin Cure
“Sin has many tools, but a lie has a handle to fit them all.” ― Ami McKay, The Birth House
