The Witches of Cambridge Quotes

“The magic of men was called religion and science, while the magic of women was witchery, always suspect, always hidden.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“It’s people that ruin things, not love.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“It was said that everyone had three fates, the one they were born with, the one they walked away from, and the one they made for themselves.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“She should have been able to have a procedure here, in a hospital, not in some back room at the hands of someone who was likely not a doctor.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“Share who you are and they’ll think you’re mad, they’ll lock you away, they’ll burn you at dawn when the birds are waking and calling out to you, seven days will pass as if they were seven years and when you turn around everything you know will be gone.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“Harm no one, know that whatever you set into the world will be returned to you three times over, know that love is the answer to the cruelty in the world. If you are willing to work your magic with good intentions, to connect with the natural world, to respect your sisters, to keep secret what must be kept so, you are one with us. We meet in a circle, in the wind or the rain, we meet with the birds above us and the grass below us, with our hearts in our hands.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“In New York”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“What do you write?” Lauren asked. “Anything. Everything.” She gave Lauren a knowing look. “Just like you.” “I’m not a writer,” Lauren said. “Not really.” The blond woman choked back a laugh. “I say the same thing. I tell them I’m nothing”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“I’m here because I’m afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married and being normal and living my life to please others but never myself. Spare me from cooking three meals a day”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“I understood now that love makes us all mortal. It keeps you grounded to the earth”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far to go.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“The Greeks and Romans had believed that men and women could become gods by chance or by luck”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“Hurt me once”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“You make a choice and there you are”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“Falling in love with the wrong man could break you in two if you weren’t strong enough.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“Love was greedy”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“All at once the paper began to burn. The professor held it in his hand until it was nearly ash”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“Ignis in oculo meo”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“We are the women who nest in trees to gaze at stars”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“They say that witches are foul”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“Don’t talk”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“The settlers believed the native people to be demons who must be chased far away from cities and towns”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“A witch is never the woman you think she is. She’s the one you don’t notice”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“Darkness of any sort frightened them”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“We never know what will happen until it does.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“Words lived on”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“Your life is your own. You belong to no one else.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“At the start of their meal”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“lysergic diethylamide acid”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge

“What was now called Halloween or All Hallows’ Eve had originally been known as Samhain”
― Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge