The Witches of Dark Root Quotes

“There are some secrets darker than witchcraft." - Aunt Dora”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“The twitchy man leered at me through the bus window.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“I’ve sworn off men. All they do is break your heart and eat your junk food.” - Maggie Maddock”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“Music is a form of magic, I suppose,” Paul said. “It can take you back in time, change your mood...and some even claim, calm the savage beast.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“Enlightenment comes only with sacrifice.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“No Maggie, real love is self-sacrificing. It’s a give, not a take. When somebody, or something, wants to take from you, use you, control you, that’s obsession, not love.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“It was an owl, an ugly thing with eyes that bulged and a beak that hooked. I wasn’t sure who had ordered it but I was certain it would never find a buyer. “Bet I beat you out of this town,” I said, tapping its beak. A losing bet, I realized. It had wings. I didn’t even have a car.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“Shelves lined every wall of Mother’s Magick shop, displaying the hundreds of candles, masks, figurines, and baubles that made Miss Sasha’s the most popular attraction in all of Dark Root.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“don’t come crying to me.” She looked at each of them in turn. “When the darkness comes. Remember you were warned.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“and Shane had begun a friendly rivalry of who could out-sauce who.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“I was filled with sadness, like I had just read the last page of a very long book. Only this time, there was no rereading that story whenever I wanted to go back.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“Miss Sasha’s Magick Shoppe, Dark Root, Oregon February,”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root