Witch Child Quotes

“Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.”
― Celia Rees, Witch Child

“In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...”
― Celia Rees, Witch Child

“Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.”
― Celia Rees, Witch Child

“I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked with yellow, rimmed with black. Now I knew the nature of her debt. It had weighed on her conscience for fourteen years. I was looking into the eyes of mother and I knew that I would never see her again.”
― Celia Rees, Witch Child

“It is no good wishing for what was not to be.”
― Celia Rees, Witch Child

“Daughter of the Erl King and the Elfen Queen, that's who you are.”
― Celia Rees, Witch Child

“She was all that I knew, all that was dear. I'd loved her and she'd loved me. Now I was alone in the world. How would I do without her? My thoughts echoed the landlady: What would become of me?”
― Celia Rees, Witch Child

“Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.”
― Celia Rees, Witch Child

“(which may probably come to pass)”
― Celia Rees, Witch Child