The Witch in the Well Quotes

“I can assure you at once that Ilsbeth’s story isn’t every woman’s story, but only the story of those of us broken and ostracized for being cut from a different cloth than the rest. Bitter fates like Ilsbeth’s don’t strike randomly but are tailored to harm those who stray from the flock.”
― Camilla Bruce, The Witch in the Well

“The woods around me were teeming with … something. A promise of new life, perhaps, nature’s brutal quickening—or maybe I’m just afraid to tell it like it was, to use that scary word: the woods seemed to be bursting with MAGIC.”
― Camilla Bruce, The Witch in the Well

“What had happened between us had made me so raw, so very, very hungry for love and affection—someone to call my own—that I think I latched on to the first person who offered and clung to it with all my might, trying to heal my wounds.”
― Camilla Bruce, The Witch in the Well

“If there is one thing working with the unknown has taught me, it’s that what appears to be weird and scary really isn’t once you learn more about it—we’re all just parts of the natural world.”
― Camilla Bruce, The Witch in the Well

“Cathy never learned that trick, and that's why her weirdness shows. It's embarrassing. to be honest, like a nipple showing.”
― Camilla Bruce, The Witch in the Well