Witch of Wild Things Quotes

“It’s so easy for the person who’s done you wrong to forget, meanwhile you’re the one stuck with the lifelong trauma.”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“It gets me thinking about the history of this land, of this whole world, even. How someone got it in their head that ripping down thousand-year-old trees was a-okay. How people who grow gardens are crunchy; how people who grow their stock portfolios are sophisticated. How Tenn’s mom’s land, with its birdsong and dappled light and ancient mushrooms, will be destroyed in just a few days because a few rich people want more money and there’s nothing any of us can do about it.”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“Everything is broken," I murmur.
"Things have been cracked for so long, Sage, Sky responds. "They needed to break. So now the roots and leave can come out and everything can bloom again."
Her metaphor stops me. If a seed cracks open and the plant can't make its way out, it would either rot or dry out from the inside. Is that how my life has been? Cracked. Dried. Rotting. Yes, it's not pleasant to break. But what if it is needed sometimes, like Sky just said? What if sometimes, we have to break things in order to heal them?”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“Everything is broken,” I murmur. “Things have been cracked for so long, Sage,” Sky responds. “They needed to break. So now the roots and leaves can come out and everything can bloom again.”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“Throughout dinner, I keep thinking about how wild fifteen-year-old me would think this is. Tennessee Reyes, here. Nadia. My sisters. The way everything had to break in order to root, to sprout. To heal.”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“and”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“Anyway, Brené Brown says . . .” He’s rustling some paper out of his pocket. “Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“I’m tired of being the person everyone else expects to bend and bend, like a plant under the weight of nonstop hail, so they can go on being nasty and mean. Plants can’t bend like that for long without snapping, and neither can people.”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“Every day, my students amaze me, but my favorite part of teaching is witnessing the ways they amaze themselves. How they go from I can’t do this to Holy shit, I did that.”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“The way everything had to break in order to root, to sprout. To heal.”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“Everything is broken,” I murmur. “Things have been cracked for so long, Sage,” Sky responds. “They needed to break. So now the roots and”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“La casa de Nadia Flores was built sometime in the 1920s. Everything about it croaks and creaks and I can't help imagining each sound is a story, sliding right out of the floorboards.”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“Sometimes I wonder if there are still bits of my heart slit into the floor, the story of my heartbreak hidden in the hardwood”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“like that we are under that moon, looking at it at the same time, you know?”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things

“Everything we need to survive and all that nourishes us comes from the Earth, its soil, the atmosphere, the sun and the stars beyond. We are simply walking pieces of earth. —MARY REYNOLDS”
― Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things