Salt & Broom Quotes

“Ancient oak, ash, and thorn,
Out of these was magic born.
Rowan, elder, apple too,
Hazel, birch, and also yew.

Tis the thorn tree folk most fear;
You see her when a sprite is near
Blossom sweet and berry sour,
These will feed a witch's power.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“Something in my chest melted and pooled like candle wax. They were the loveliest words anyone had ever spoken to me. I will not abandon you.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“Mr. Rochester had more the flavor of villain than romantic hero.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“In the pause before his answer, I heard the distant screech of a barn owl. Then a nightingale warbled from a nearby hedge. The first could be a warning; the second suggested a mystery or . . . love. Or just a bird singing in the hedge. Reading signs was rather an imprecise art.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“In the burning times, folk were eager enough to be healed by cunning women, yet sometimes just as eager to cry "witch" when they needed someone to blame for their troubles. We thankfully lived in more enlightened times, but those fears still echoed.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“He considered himself an amateur naturalist. It was a short slide into witchery from there, but I’d never be the one to tell him so.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“I could feel the strength of him through my shift. The hardness of his body against my own more pliant flesh.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“He caught me in his arms. Heat crept across my skin and down into my belly. I closed my eyes and took a breath. How this surge of feeling frightened me! I mustn’t think of him this way,”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“I knew this was how I’d remember him. Not as the thorny gentleman in black. It surprised me how this weighed on my heart. Heaven help me, he’s becoming dear to me.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“No matter how intriguing.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“No female of my family had survived, and I wasn’t about to let my thoughts wander in any direction that might result in the installation of another one on the estate.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“embark on another dangerous adventure, for heaven’s sake come to me first and I’ll accompany you.” Small moths flitted in my stomach.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“Witches sought wisdom from animals, and sometimes one chose a witch for a companion. The hare was the closest thing I’d ever had to a familiar.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“Boundaries were where magic happened.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“He’s in love with you, and you’re in love with him, even if you haven’t realized it yet. The rules between you have changed. It puts you on equal footing.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“Like the dryad of the previous morning, this fairy had pale-green skin with leaflike veins running beneath. Her hair was a vivid red, like the fruit of the hawthorn tree, hanging loose in waves and adorned with coils of threaded dried hawthorn berry, much darker in color. She wore a diaphanous white-and-gold gown that, when I looked closer, I discovered was made of blossoms. She had thin limbs and pointy features—nose, chin, elbows, fingers. Thorny. Her ears curved up and out of her hair.”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom

“They say,” he continued, “that a cat is a witch’s servant.” “Have you ever met a cat who was anyone’s servant?”
― Sharon Lynn Fisher, Salt & Broom