#witch

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#guilt #remorse #sorrow #witch #life

And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#malice #misdirection #wicked #wicked-witch-of-the-west #life

The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life. ↗

— Margot Adler

#witch #witchcraft #witches #life

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life #terry-pratchett #tiffany-aching #truth #witches

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was... ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#confidence #strength #witches #life

One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her — is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#philosophy #wicked #witch #life

But I needed this, Whit. I needed to pay him back. For stealing my life. For stealing our life together. - Celia ↗

— James Patterson

#james-pattereson #patterson #the-fire #whit #wisty

Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#dorothy #hope #ignorance #innocence #philosophy

My father also told me that he felt free in that little hole in the ground, much freer than he felt outside, where he was always being chased by the criminals of the regime. That freedom came from inside, from his thoughts, from his soul; and nobody could take that from him. ↗

— Teodor Flonta

#life #love #secret-police #transylvania #vampires

Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard. ↗

— Yasmine Galenorn

#dragon #love #paranormal #paranormal-fiction #paranormal-romance