Emily > Emily's Quotes

“Do as you will, but harm no one.

What you give will be returned to you threefold.

Fall in love whenever you can.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.”
― Mark Twain

“I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition.”
― Castiel

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Witch. The word slithers from the mouth like a serpent, drips from the tongue as thick and black as tar. We never thought of ourselves as witches, my mother and I. For this was a word invented by men, a word that brings power to those that speak it, not those that it describes. A word that builds gallows and pyres, turns breathing women into corpses.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“Fiction became a friend as well as a safe harbor, a cocoon to protect her from the outside world and its dangers.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
― Denis Diderot

“Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers