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“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

“If you are not able to travel, he told me, the next best thing is to read. Read all you can, girl. And store up that knowledge, for you never know when you will need it.”
― Paula Brackston, The Winter Witch

“Better foolish and honest than clever and false.”
― Paula Brackston, The Witch's Daughter

“To learn, you must be humble. You must be prepared to admit your ignorance. You must allow yourselves to be filled with the vital information presented to you via the skills and dedication of those who have gone before you down the long path to enlightenment.”
― Paula Brackston, The Witch's Daughter

“what can be imagined can be brought into being.”
― Paula Brackston, The Little Shop of Found Things

“There is none so quick to dismiss what they don’t understand as those who are afraid of it. And maybe with reason.”
― Paula Brackston, The Winter Witch

“For, what is home? Surely more than a set of rooms, a roof, an address? Home suggests belonging. Suggests warmth, safety, companionship. Love.”
― Paula Brackston, The Silver Witch

“there is no courage in being fearless. Do you not know that? A person who knows fear and yet can still think of others, well, he be a brave man.”
― Paula Brackston, The Witch's Daughter

“Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.”
― Paula Brackston, The Midnight Witch

“Faith requires no proof. No evidence. No explanation. Faith is entirely a matter of trust and belief. We cannot know, we can only believe.”
― Paula Brackston, The Midnight Witch

“Reputation is for those who can afford it.”
― Paula Brackston, The Witch's Daughter

“We are each mistresses of our own happiness. We ought not to look to others to supply it.”
― Paula Brackston, The Silver Witch

“If you are not able to travel,” he told me, “the next best thing is to read. Read all you can, girl. And store up that knowledge, for you never know when you will need it.”
― Paula Brackston, The Winter Witch

“And secrets are dangerous. They start small but grow with every evasive answer or outright lie that protects them. Nevertheless, I confess to finding the closeness such conspiracy breeds irresistibly delicious.”
― Paula Brackston, The Witch's Daughter

“Knowledge cannot be unknown. Experience cannot be unlived.”
― Paula Brackston, The Winter Witch

“And where shall I look for thee, When I no longer hear that voice so dear? Where shall I seek the warmth that love Made all things found glow bright and clear? Look not to the heavenly stars, Nor search the lofty spires, nor bid the choir sing. I will dwell among the details of our lives; My memory will linger in all the found things. —DAPHNE BURTON-GORE”
― Paula Brackston, The Little Shop of Found Things

“Must we always bedeck ourselves in prettiness to be thought pleasing? It would appear so. A woman must look a certain way to be worthy of a man’s attentions. It is expected.”
― Paula Brackston, The Winter Witch

“fear it is written somewhere in the terms of my parental contract: Fret frequently about well-being of offspring.”
― Paula Brackston, The Silver Witch

“If you are not able to travel,” he told me, “the next best thing is to read.”
― Paula Brackston, The Winter Witch

“After all, are we not measured by the way in which we treat the most vulnerable members of our society?”
― Paula Brackston, The Little Shop of Found Things

“My mind is like the willow; it flexes and springs. My heart is a knot of oak. Let them try to wound me.”
― Paula Brackston, The Silver Witch