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#1

“Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: halloween, shakespeare, witch, witches

257 likes

#2

“Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: drink, full-moon, luminous, moon, moon-love, moonlight, night, night-time, poetry, poetry-quotes, thirst

32 likes

#3

“The smell of jasmine makes people tell their secrets”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

tags: jasmine, secret

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#4

“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib

tags: description, grass, june, roses, summer, sunshine

411 likes

#5

“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, shadow, sunshine

534 likes

#6

“Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”
― Roman Payne

tags: desert, earth, gold, happiness, heat, importance-of-existence, joy, light, optimism, quotes-from-books, quotes-from-modern-writers, riches, roman-payne, short-quote, short-quotes, summer, sun-worship, sunlight, sunny, sunrise, sunset, sunshine, travel, tropical, value

408 likes

#7

“Books were my broomstick. They allowed me to fly to other realms where anything was possible.”
― Pam Grossman, Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power

tags: books, magic, reading

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#8

“The witch is the ultimate feminist icon because she is a fully rounded symbol of female oppression and liberation.”
― Pam Grossman, Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power

tags: feminist, icons, liberation, witches, women

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#9

“To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: action, challenge, commune, environment, intuition, witch

241 likes

#10

“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")”
― Ray Bradbury, Long After Midnight

tags: nyc, witch, witches

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#11

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”
― Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories

tags: magic, sorcery, spirituality, witch

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#12

“That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

tags: magic

62 likes

#13

“I knew you talked to books. I didn't realize they listened.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

tags: book-quote, books, bookworm, elisabeth-scrivener, nathaniel-thorn

171 likes

#14

“Books, too, had hearts, though they were not the same as people's, and a book's heart could be broken: she had seen it happen before. Grimoires that refused to open, their voices gone silent, or whose ink faded and bled across the pages like tears.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

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#15

“Ink and parchment flowed through her veins. The magic of the Great Libraries lived in her very bones. They were a part of her, and she a part of them.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

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#16

“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”
― Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: humor

1440 likes

#17

“Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: books, humor

969 likes

#18

“Heaven has no taste."
"Now-"
"And not one single sushi restaurant."
A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.”
― Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: heaven, humor, sushi

185 likes

#19

“Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we’d been at all competent.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: demotivational, humor

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#20

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: confidences, secrets, sharing-secrets

3942 likes

#21

“There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive.
And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture
Then lapped the white, sharp teeth.
Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited. ”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

108 likes

#22

“The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about "a handsome prince"... was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called handsome? As for "a girl who was as beautiful as the day was long"... well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light! The stories don't want you to think, they just wanted you to believe what you were told...”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

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#23

“Cross your fingers, throw salt over your shoulder, knock on wood...simple folk remedies for unfortunate situations. Silly superstitions...but were they based in truth from a past long forgotten? I didn't know, but it wouldn't hurt to just do it and let the Universe do its job if it was of a mind to. Don't you think?”
― Madelyn Alt, No Rest for the Wiccan

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#24

“A witch is someone who has dedicated her life to learning about the connections between things. She studies the different cycles and her place in them. She learns how to use the energy in herself and in the world to make changes. And most of all, she tries to make the world a better place for herself and other people.”
― Isobel Bird, The Challenge Box

tags: wicca, wiccans, witch, witchcraft, witches

16 likes

#25

“There are a few things in life so beautiful they hurt: swimming in the ocean while it rains, reading alone in empty libraries, the sea of stars that appear when you’re miles away from the neon lights of the city, bars after 2am, walking in the wilderness, all the phases of the moon, the things we do not know about the universe, and you.”
― Beau Taplin

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#26

“But how can you love a person who is not whole? Because you, like the moon, are not only beautiful when full. In all of your phases and fractions and ivory-white pieces, I love you.”
― Beau Taplin, Worlds of You: Poetry & Prose

tags: love, moon

30 likes

#27

“The moon doesn’t consider one phase better than another. She just glows, equally stunning at each turn. Why should we be any different?”
― Cristen Rodgers

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#28

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU”
― Ellen Dugan, Garden Witchery: Magick from the Ground Up

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#29

“Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.”
― Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

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