Spellbook of the Lost and Found Quotes

“Do no harm, but take no shit.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“If you’re not careful you can spend your whole life looking for what you’ve lost.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“Be careful what you wish for;
Not all lost things should be found.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“If you don't get lost, you will never be found.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“You cast spells every day. Your makeup is glamor magic. Hiding and highlighting. The clothes you pick out to make your legs look longer, your waist smaller. The red you wear for confidence; the black when you’re sad, the blue for clarity. Your favorite bra. Your lucky socks. The way you take an hour on your hair. It’s a ritual. It’s never just about clothes, or makeup, or perfectly messy buns. It’s about magic.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“Every first is a loss.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“Being with you makes me feel like I deserve to be loved. Like I'm less of a monster. Like if you trust me that means I can trust myself.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“We were a coven; we were a crowd. We were a forest; we were a three-headed dog.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“They fight a lot...I used to think love was just like that”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“I have secrets. I tell lies. I drink too much and I steal things sometimes. One day my freckled skin will go scaly and everyone will se what a monster I can be.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“That night, everybody lost something.
Not everybody noticed.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“The rain had washed out the world and the wind had swept the clouds in under the rug and the sky was all speckles of stars and the moon, glowing.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“The problem is I've too many secrets and sometimes it's hard to keep up with your own lies.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“What will you let go of? What can you not afford to lose?”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“Laurel, Ash, and Holly. If there had to be a collective noun for us, it would be a forest. A forest of teenage girls.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“Bang went the thunder. Whimper went the rain. Burn, burn, burn went the lighning. The sky was a rush of water with the lake rising to meet it, and in its choppy waves I saw more bodies, more red, open mouths, hands like claws wanting to pull us under. My heart was the backbeat to the thunder.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“But it was us. It was the spell. It was three girls messing with something we didn't understand.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“Wait for a sing.
If the light go out, you will know the lost are listening.
If you hear dogs barking, you will know the lost have heard your call.
If you hear the howling, you will know the lost have answered.

Be caredful what yu bargain with:
Every lost thing requires a sacrifice-
A new loss for every called thing found.

What will you let go of?
What can you not afford to lose?
Consider carefully before you cast the calling:
It may not be for you to choose.

Be carefull what you wish for:
Not all lost things should be found.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“No matter what the rest of them seem to believe, there really isn't such a thing as magic.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“I was afraid if I left I'd get lost in these woods. I was afraid I would never find my way back.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“Hope rises like smoke from the forest. I can’t let myself follow it yet.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“One time Granda told me that four hundred years ago Ireland was mostly forest. You could walk from coast to coast without leaving its shade. I wonder if the ghosts of lost trees stay on in towns and fields.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“Ash has always been the wildfire of movement that keeps us both awake.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“Emily was finally home.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“I can't stop making lists of lost things that shouldn't be found again. Lost hair. Lost blood.
Lost souls.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“We cut our fingers and drank the burning alcohol and wrote out our losses on the branches of trees.
And that's when the weirdness started.
Moss became fur became dead animas on the floor of the fores. The trees became the spaces between the trees. We three held hands and made noises that weren't words, but that Holly said lated were a calling. A calling for the lost to be found”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“The spell was on the very fist page: a calling for the lost to be found.
We wanted our diaries found. So Holly suggested we try it.
At first it was like a recipe: gathering moss and branches, raiding our cupboards for olive oil, slipping saints medals out of our nanas' wallets, rooting through the Christmas boxes in the attic, looking for silver string. It was silly and secret and made us feel like kids making mud pies. None of us took it seriously, not even Holly.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“The first page said only SPELLBOOK OF THE LOST AND FOUND, like a title.
You cannot read on with a title like that.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“You're in great danger of becoming a parody of yourself, you know," I say.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“She sits with her elbow on the knee of one long leg, and I am always surprised at how she can take such an innocent act and make it look lascivious. It's a disturbing talent.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found