Grimoire Girl Quotes

“How do I play an active role in crafting my children’s inheritance while I’m still very much here? I want to be aware of what I’m living and creating in the moment. And I want to leave them with behaviors, traditions, funny habits, and a sense of curiosity that outweighs any material inheritance.”
― Hilarie Burton Morgan, Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief

“You are not alone. Many have stood here. Even the gods.”
― Hilarie Burton Morgan, Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief

“So much of witchcraft was labeled as such because laymen didn’t understand the healing properties of basic ingredients.”
― Hilarie Burton Morgan, Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief

“But my me-gic is the thing that sees me through all those other obstacles. I may have the coordination of a newborn calf and a limited education and a hot temper, but I can see the goddamn good in everyone and everything.”
― Hilarie Burton Morgan, Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief

“In every single town I traveled to, I’d go out of my way to find a local bookstore or gift shop and pick up a book on local tall tales and legends. Some of these books are ghost stories. Some are about monsters. Other are about local characters who did horrible things or miraculous things or were just so weird people can’t stop talking about them. I remember doing an interview during those MTV years and explaining this practice. I told the reporter that I wanted to be able to drive cross-country with my kids and have a story for every single stop we made.”
― Hilarie Burton Morgan, Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief

“Magic, real honest to goodness Magic, is about acknowledging the power of the natural world. It is about respecting not just the divinity in humans but in every living thing”
― Hilarie Burton Morgan, Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief

“I am continually moved by the idea that as one beloved thing enters its season of loss, another is blooming”
― Hilarie Burton Morgan, Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief

“We all have something special about us, a thing deep down inside of us that is specifically ours. Our magic. Our me-gic”
― Hilarie Burton Morgan, Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief