2017, Luvvie Ajayi, Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. Chapter Know Your Worth, Black women are my patronus, and surrounding myself with villages of black women has been my biggest form of self-care.
2017, Susan Dennard, Windwitch Chapter Acknowledgments, For my dear, dear #Witchlanders, you are my patronus. Real talk here: you are my guardians against the darkness. You’re the reason I keep writing every day, the reason I didn’t give up even when this book almost killed me, the reason I want to tell this story at all.
2020, Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water, She’s my patronus. When I can’t deal with real life, I escape into her virtual space, where everything is perfectly lit, perfectly coifed, and perfectly accompanied by neo-soul music I never hear anywhere but natural hair videos and the beauty supply shop.
2020, Sanchi, The Edge of Seventeen Chapter Sanchi, I am 16 years old. My patronus is a unicorn and I literally talk to moon and love the croissant crescent. I love to talk about fireflies, stars and books.
2021, Jennie Marts, When a Cowboy Loves a Woman, She wore khaki shorts, scuffed hiking boots, and a lavender T-shirt with an open book on the front that read My patronus is a bookworm.
2022, Alena Rehse, Turtles & Paperclips: My Thoughts On You Chapter You Changed Me, Falling for you Did me good I swear it did // You changed my attitude My patronus And my life // You changed me illustration of a Patronus-like dog
