A Lullaby for Witches Quotes

“Do you know what it is to be lonely? Truly alone, even amidst a crowd? Even in a family?”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“Here is what I know to be true: we are part of something larger, something more beautiful than we could ever comprehend. During our brief tenure on this earth, we see but only a glimpse of the world around us.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“Perhaps if my mother had been a witch like me with powers of her own, she would have taken me under her wing and guided me on my singular path. But she did not, and I was left to discover what made me different on my own, stumbling and groping along.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“But there are prices to be paid for such magic, and balances to be kept.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“But what I'm beginning to realize is that I don't need to find myself. I've been here all along.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“Every sunrise, every drop of rain was a paradigm of magic, proof of a miraculous world.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“Either way, it was lonely to lie so close next to someone, yet feel so very far away.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“You’re a monster,” he murmured. “You have lived under this roof for all these years, and there has been a darkness festering inside of you the whole time.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“Mostly I remember thinking that I was going to be pretty fucking mad if a one-hundred-fifty-year-old lovers’ quarrel was the reason I’d never get to see you again.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“He thought Augusta had a split personality or something and wanted his sister to check her out. First, he had thought she had a substance abuse problem, and now he thought it was mental illness. Why couldn’t he see that it was something that went beyond all logical explanations?”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“You got her with child, knowing you would never marry her. You didn’t love her. You used her.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“Do you really think that our parents will allow you to live alone with a bastard child? They may have raised you like their own, but they have limits, especially when it comes to the good name of the family and the business.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“You wanted to travel the world, yet you gave up your dream so that you could stand behind the counter at your parents’ shop. You love me, but you would rather placate Lucy Clerkenwell and stay despite your changed feelings. You’re a coward.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“you think to soothe me with stories in the dark or play gallant knight, you vastly misunderstand my character. I would sooner push you over these rocks than listen to such tripe.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“You didn’t answer my texts,” he said again. “You don’t get to just toss me aside after five years and act like I don’t exist. You owe me better than that.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“No, they might not dare lay a finger on you, being the rich white girl that you are, but no one would so much as blink an eye if my house were to burn down. They can come to me with their fishing nets and ask me for charms and spells, but it isn’t me that they respect, it’s the novelty of someone like me.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“didn’t want to go home. I didn’t want to see Henry’s smug face when he learned that Jack had betrayed me, that he had been right all along. I didn’t want to go sit with people who had lied to me for years about who I was, people who had stolen me away from my mother.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“Henry might have thought that he had laid my doubts to rest, but he had only strengthened the idea that there was something no one was telling”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“The Victorians were notoriously prudish when it came to scandals and love affairs, and Augusta had come across more than one case when a zealous descendant had decided to take things into their own hands and censor the historical record.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“There was a reason why after weeks of Jack promising that he would sway his parents that he had hadn’t been round to ask my father’s permission. There was a reason why he had not come for me to elope. All the love potions and spells and prayers couldn’t save me. Oh, how could I have let myself fall in love!”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“Did she really owe him anything? Or did she owe herself the chance to be happy, whether that led to another relationship or not?”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“Last year a guy dressed as the Joker got really drunk and smashed a bunch of gravestones”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“hear things,” she said without looking up. “Things about a certain young man meeting a certain young lady in the woods at night and making love to her.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“He was looking at her as if she was Prometheus bringing fire to humanity. “You’re a lifesaver, thank you.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“Why exactly did people think hiking was anything other than an exercise in self-inflicted torture? Nature was meant to be enjoyed from a picnic blanket or well-lit patio with lots of cold drinks and easy access to indoor plumbing.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“Oh, yes you do. You and I are different from the rest of them. We could never bind ourselves to someone who doesn’t understand us. The Ida Fosters of the world are all well and good for George and Clarence, but not for the likes of us.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“Augusta, we’re really excited to have you here. Your references had nothing but great things to say about you, and you bring a lot of knowledge and valuable experience to Harlowe House.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“They have a picnic at the house once a year, but the public isn’t invited. I guess since we don’t have royalty in America some people like to imagine that they’re above everyone else because of their bloodline.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“You flatter yourself if you think this errand has anything to do with you, and not the sponge cake that must be baked for my father’s dinner tonight.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“was a rare thing for a man to be brought to justice for abuse of his wife, as men tend to band together, to protect one another. I collected these secrets and wrote them down so that somewhere in this universe, there would exist a sliver of justice for these women.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches