The Witch of Belladonna Bay Quotes

“Mermaids don't drown.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go.

"Aren't we all?" she said...”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“Trees down south have a difference to them, a subtle, slinking movement, mile by mile- a gracefulness, a swagger. Lanky trees stretching out their wiry thin, Spanish moss-covered branches, moss that sways and beckons ... come here, come here, it says.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“I'm an old man now. Old on the inside. I'm a drunk, and I hate to tell you, but I'm not prepared to change. So you have to figure out if you want to forgive me and love me like I am, or run away again. Or hell, stay here and hate me. Just...know that I love you the best way I know how. I always have. I do the best I can.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“You'll be just fine," he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“[P]eople think that in order for something to be frightening, it has to be dark, musty, and full of cobwebs and secrets. That's a lie of epic proportion. The scariest, most unexplainable things happen in the bright light of day. And just when you least expect.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“She told us about how some people just had magic built into them. That her family firmly believed somehow, somewhere, at the very moment when the stars first erupted with a bang, stardust settled on only a few specks of life already forming in the sea. And how those few specks evolved into people who hold all sorts of unexplainable talents.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“When I was little, I thought it was terribly romantic, being half stardust, half Southern magnolia.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“There's a great deal of power in pretending.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer, don't they?”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“You can't measure other people's love, Sugar.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“Laughter layered the walls and clung to the dust mites, making them sparkle like lightning bugs in the daytime.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“Last week you looked at me with love. You wanted to touch me. Last week I was happy. Now? Who are you? I don’t even recognize you.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“She told us about how some people just had magic built into them. That her family firmly believed somehow, somewhere, at the very moment when the stars first erupted with a bang, stardust settled on only a few specks of life already forming in the sea. And how those few specks evolved into people who hold all sorts of unexplainable talents. When I was little I thought it was terribly romantic, being half stardust, half Southern magnolia.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“I don't pay no mind to rules. Seems to me, rules are things made up by scared people too afraid to die, so they can't live. Or too lazy to make their own decisions. Rules are for breakin', as far as I'm concerned.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“I'm like the moon," he started, "the hidden side of the moon. Not seen because it don't want to be seen. Everyone knows ther's is shadow there, but no one looks. It's like that with me, Byrd. I'm part illuminated, part in shadow-and that part that shines is all you ever wanted to see. But it kept getting smaller, and now it's dark. I'm a new moon now, Byrd. All there is, is shadow. Can you still see me? Do you still love me?”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their whole lives so scared of dyin' that they never get to live. Spend their whole lives pushin' down that darkness, until there ain't no light at all.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“Everyone has a dark side. This is pure fact. I can see it like a shadow behind them all the time.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“I like the dark," she said. "Ain't it just like a big blue blanket wrappin' us up with comfort?”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“It isn't only trouble that comes up behind you, Mama, it's sorrow too.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“Sugar, the things we hold closest to our hearts are the things we just can't seem to see." Jackson Whalen”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“The kitchen of the Big House was always one of my favorite places. Airy and sunny. No modern cabinets or anything like that. Just a room full of windows, set into wise, worn walls.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“We gotta let people go, don’t we? If we hold on to them with all that anger, resentment, love … whatever, we strangle them.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“What’s the definition of torture? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s when someone you can’t stand to be parted from leaves you to go figure out a mystery that you yourself have been tryin’ to solve … and they leave you behind. Nothin’ feels worse than bein’ left behind.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“There is nothing worse than an awkward silence between two people who’ve never experienced it before.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“You don’t need no fancy ESP when someone’s hurtin’. You can guess.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“You can’t heal someone who doesn’t want to get well. You just can’t.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay