“Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.”
― Celia Rees, quote from Witch Child
“In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...”
― Celia Rees, quote from Witch Child
“Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.”
― Celia Rees, quote from Witch Child
“It is no good wishing for what was not to be.”
― Celia Rees, quote from Witch Child
“I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked with yellow, rimmed with black. Now I knew the nature of her debt. It had weighed on her conscience for fourteen years. I was looking into the eyes of mother and I knew that I would never see her again.”
― Celia Rees, quote from Witch Child
“Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.”
― Celia Rees, quote from Witch Child
“Daughter of the Erl King and the Elfen Queen, that's who you are.”
― Celia Rees, quote from Witch Child
“She was all that I knew, all that was dear. I'd loved her and she'd loved me. Now I was alone in the world. How would I do without her? My thoughts echoed the landlady: What would become of me?”
― Celia Rees, quote from Witch Child
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“I dislike the idea of a murderer employing children,' said Holmes darkly. ‘It is, I agree, bad for their morals, and interferes with their sleep.’ ‘And their schooling,’ added Holmes sententiously.”
― Laurie R. King, quote from The Beekeeper's Apprentice
“if making things seem prettier than they are is a lie, then making them seem uglier must be another.”
― Richard Russo, quote from Empire Falls
“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”
― Ayn Rand, quote from The Fountainhead
“Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?'
'You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.'
'Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, quote from Harriet the Spy
“And then it was all happening, what had started to happen at least twice before. Feelings so sweet and strong she could hardly bear it. Strange recognition, unexpected belonging…impossible knowing…”
― L.J. Smith, quote from Night World, No. 2
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