Spells for Forgetting Quotes

“There are spells for breaking and spells for mending. But there are no spells for forgetting.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“There were tales that only the island knew. Ones that had never been told. I knew, because I was one of them.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“This pain inside me was like broken glass clutched in a fist. I knew it was drawing blood. Bleeding me out, all day, every day. But still, I couldn’t just open my fingers and let it go. Because this wasn’t that kind of love.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“We’d had no beginning, I realized. We just always were. When I thought about it like that, it was comforting. Like there was no waiting for an end, either.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“My heart was that strange, shooting star. Always falling.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“I'd been in love with August Salt since before I knew what the words meant. I don't know when it happened - the narrow space between seconds, when a spark like the birth of a hundred stars found a home in my blood. Since then, every day had been colored with the glittering light of it dragging me in its wake, pulling me beneath its surface. And I didn't care. If this was what it was like to drown, then for the rest of my life, I didn't want to take another sip of air.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“Sometimes the signs were subtle, like a fleeting shadow or an echo in the trees. Other times, the island wasn’t gentle with her words. This wasn’t like the gentle shift of wind before a storm. Something dead had woken.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“I’ve lived enough years now to know that there were some ghosts that haunted you forever. Saoirse had secrets, yes. But so did we.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“I loved her long before that. I don't really remember a time that I didn't love her.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“There were some things that were a part of you, no matter how badly they hurt.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“So she’d never asked and I’d never told her, and in the end, it broke us anyway.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“She smelled like sun and the drying herbs that hung in the tea shop. She felt like home.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“At times, I'd even felt like that one memory was the only thing that was keeping me breathing. And there were a million times after I left Saoirse that I wished to God it never happened.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“While the outside world was burning their witches, we were here. On the island.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“I wasn't sure anymore which were memories and which were dreams. I'd lost track of that a long time ago.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“After a lifetime of hungering for things to change, I’d settled into a life that I hoped never would.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“I didn't know that teenagers didn't usually fall into that kind of love, or that there was anything unusual about us at all. I just knew that she felt like air to me.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“She held on to me, her head tipping back with her lips pinched between her teeth, and it was the frst time I'd ever felt that pull- that soul-deep tide that drags you under until you can't breathe. It was the only time I had ever felt it. And I don't know if it was
being young, or being stupid or if it was just what first love feels like, but I didn't want to stop.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“There are spells for breaking and spells for mending, but there are no spells for forgetting.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“I knew it was crazy. That to anyone else, none of it would make sense. But Emery and I had always been something that didn’t make sense, and I’d lived long enough without her to worry about the risk of sounding like an idiot.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“For fourteen years, it felt like I’d been counting down the minutes, the seconds, to a moment that I thought would never come. He was an ache inside of me that would never be soothed. And it was a pain I didn’t even want to be freed from.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“There are spells for breaking and spells for mending. But there are no spells for forgetting,” I warned her.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“Because I'm somehow still connected to you. Like a part of me isn't there if you're not there. For years, I thought that would go away. It didn't.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“There were times when I wondered if I'd dreamed it. If he'd ever been real or if he was a fragmented piece of my imagination, buried deep and painful within me like a splinter under the skin.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“While the outside world was burning their witches, we were here. On this island.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“I'd been eighteen years old. I'd known nothing about suffering or responsibility or loss, but somehow, I'd known this soul-deep king of love that I now wondered if most people never found. It cut open a vein in me that never stopped flowing.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“She'd looked at me like she hated me as we stood in front of the burning truck, but there was also something comforting about it. It felt like before. When angry words between us had been like the waves that crashed around the island. It had never mattered what was said, because we always returned to each other. Like gravity.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“Every autumn, when the crowds filled Main Street, I would watch out the window of my mother's shop and imagine him appearing in the stream of faces. More than once, I even thought I saw him. It took longer than I wanted to admit for me to realize that I couldn't cut him from me. That some part of him had been fused to places I couldn't even see.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“I may not have known how to find him, but he’d known where I was. He’d always known. August wasn’t lost. He wasn’t taken away or waiting for me somewhere. He never came back. He had never come back for me.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“Milk-white moonlight flitted through the tree branches overhead, flashing over me like distant lightning.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting