The Witch Haven Quotes

“I think perhaps this is how we survive in the world. Passing little bits of our magic back and forth to each other when the world takes it from us. It's survival. It's love. It's family.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“Women are supposed to be competent at everything, but experts at nothing. Haven't you heard?”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“If thousands of years of history have taught us one thing, it is that the world is not kind to women who possess power”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“If I were a month, I think I'd be November, sad and cold and unremarkable, lacking the commitment required of being a fierce thing like January.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“You can't burn down the world for taking the things you love from you. I tried.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“I feel a hundred and fifty. And also maybe five. An elderly toddler. The world's oldest idiot. I know too much and nothing at all.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“How comfortable it is to be a thing that is feared.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“You've been haunting me my whole life.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“My mother once told me a girl's success in this world was dependent on how well she could pretend”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“Magic is an art, not a science. Think of this book as giving you suggestions, not instructions.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“I don't want to be good. I want to create something, be something.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“Mrs. Vykotsky smiles in the particularly annoying way the old smile at the young, with pitying condescension.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“Good girls don’t have a fire in their chest that begs for more things to burn.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“I think perhaps this is how we survive in the world. Passing little bits of our magic back and forth to each other when the world takes it from us. It’s survival. It’s love. It’s family.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“I feel a hundred and fifty. And also maybe five. An elderly toddler. The world's oldest idiot. I know too much and nothing at all.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“Magic is derived from the human soul; it is varied as humanity itself, but yes, with proper training, you'll have the ability to move things with your mind.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“I've always hated autumn, hated watching the earth die.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“I'm terrified to face who I am without my sadness. What is left of me without it.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“Her answer makes me angry. How completely predictable, how infuriatingly boring that women with magic can be so easily intimidated by ordinary men with guns and matches. “How”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. —Mary Oliver”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven

“My mother once told me a girl's success in this world was dependent on how well she could pretend.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Haven