Payback's a Witch Quotes

“Her pale eyes glittered like something out of a Billie Eilish song;”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“The night air gusted against my face, smelling like an absolute of fall; woodsmoke and dying leaves and the faintest bracing hint of future snow. And right below that was the scent of Thistle Grove magic, which I’ve never come across anywhere else. Spicy and earthy, as if the lingering ghost of all the incense burned by three hundred years of witches had never quite blown away. A perpetual Halloween smell, the kind that gave you the good-creepy sort of tingles.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“Places from the past are usually much smaller than you remember when you return to them years later, shocked that they'd ever managed to command so much space in your brain at all.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“At best, we’d been fellow celestial bodies whose orbits coincided at regular intervals.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“Then the Blackmoore matriarch’s shrill voice pierced the quiet, Igraine being terminally incapable of calming her tits in any situation not proceeding according to her design.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“I told her how I’d taken to going on long midday walks to savor the fall weather; wandering in and out of the familiar tourist traps on Yarrow Street, getting lunch at Golden’s or the new sandwich place with the incredible falafel wraps. Dipping into the funky coffee shop Talia had taken me to, exploring the new galleries, jewelry stores, and boutiques that had sprung up in my absence. I’d even picnicked by myself next to Lady’s Lake, in sunshine so pure it felt medicinal, and taken a book and a hot chocolate to the town cemetery like I’d once loved to do, whiling away an entire afternoon. Slowly falling back under Thistle Grove’s spell without even putting up a fight.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“The night air gusted against my face, smelling like an absolute of fall; woodsmoke and dying leaves and the faintest bracing hint of future snow.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“I had always been the kind of ambitious that demanded the culmination of becoming Someone. I craved the validation of high achievement, the sense of wielding control over your own life. The fulfillment you could find only through setting up lofty goals for yourself, then knocking them down one by one.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“The midday sun wavered on the
surface of the lake like a sunken coin, caught in the reflected ring of trees that circled the water's edge.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“Places from the past are usually much smaller than you remember when you return to them years later, shocked that they’d ever managed to command so much space in your brain at all.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“I could tell she wasn’t speaking English, but the bespelled mirror had a Babel Fish effect; I had no trouble understanding every word.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“I looked up to see my mother on the ancient porch swing on the back deck, snug in a cozy bathrobe and fleece slippers, a mug of something steaming in her hand. It was almost eleven, but my mom was a big fan of stretching her mornings as far as they could go.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“For me, it’s the satisfaction of it. You’ve fed someone, made them happy and comfortable for at least a little while. Taken care of them in a way that they could feel.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“When Pearl Dragon and cheap wine and even magic have all failed us . . . there will always be Buffy marathons.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“There was something uniquely magical about sleeping cozied up with a best friend, a primal sense of safety and contentment that couldn’t really be explained.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“You know what Yoda said about trying," she said, muffled. "It's for fucking losers.”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch

“I inspected the feeling, turning it around in my mind like some anomalous artifact I’d stumbled across by accident, analyzing it from every perplexing angle. I”
― Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch