The Midnight Witch Quotes

“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

“Who was it, I wonder, who decided that heartbroken relatives should host a party at the very moment all they wished for was to be left alone to grieve?”
― Paula Brackston, The Midnight Witch

“All around us the young and the not so young are dancing, laughing, and drinking with something akin to desperation. It is as if their very lives depend on their having a good time. As if the only way they can banish all the pain, all the loss, all the sadness of the war, is to fill each moment with wild enjoyment. But that very desperation is itself a kind of loss, as if they have misplaced the spontaneous, sincere happiness of old and replaced it with something contrived. Something that is only on the surface. Something pitiful.”
― Paula Brackston, The Midnight Witch

“The dead are seldom silent.”
― Paula Brackston, The Midnight Witch

“If to be in love is to lose one’s self then I am as in love as it is possible to be, for I am utterly lost! My head is filled with thoughts of him, of the man who has so unexpectedly yet so completely claimed my heart. When I close my eyes I see him. When I dream it is of him. When I try to read a novel the words shift upon the page until they spell out his name. I am like a giddy girl, unable to be still or serious for a minute, flitting from one imagining to the next, all of him.”
― Paula Brackston, The Midnight Witch

“We could be together. We could find a way. If she still loves me. For after all, surely there is no greater magic than love.”
― Paula Brackston, The Midnight Witch