Big Little Spells Quotes

“Do not stand in your mistakes, seek to fix them.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“You can make mistakes, Rebekah. You can disappoint me. But you have never and will never lose my love. Or my belief that you can do better and be better.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“and understand, against my will, that life is nothing but change. You live, you learn, you lose.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“This is not regret. This is the blooming of a part of myself I’ve never encountered before. Maybe it’s always been there, hidden away, this part of me that’s his. As if I have been, always and ever, only his.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“You have to forgive yourself. To save anything, including you.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“You live, you learn, you lose. I wish I’d understood that when I was as young and foolish as most of the kids here. Or maybe there’s something sort of beautiful about that time. Before you know better.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“So what’s wrong with me?” I ask of Jacob, because I’m sure something must be wrong if I fainted like some corseted drama queen. Besides, scrying magic is supposed to feel good. Maybe a little intense, depending. It’s not supposed to burn.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“I suck in a deep breath, and it feels like all that peace I struggled to grasp out there. All those retreats, all those yoga challenges, all those tarot cards, and it was just this. Just love.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“Fear. Shame. Grief. I gripped them all so hard I made marks. I dug in. I called myself an addict to everything I refused to let go of. I wrapped them tight around me and built a new life on top of them and letting them go makes me feel...almost tipsy. But free.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“But Grandma, they all saw.” And the good thing about having conversations with my long-dead loved ones is that no explanations are necessary. She knows what they saw. Just as she knows who showed them. She slides her arm around me. “Then, child, let them see you, for a change. Let them love you. I’ll let you in on a secret. They already do.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“No one is ever perfect,” Grandma is saying in her quietly fierce way. “Not an ageless witch. Not the first Diviner we’ve seen in St. Cyprian in decades. Not Emerson or your parents or even me. There is no standard you need to meet, except your own.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“Why fall in love with some run-of-the-mill witch who works magic in accounting and likes to let loose on Beltane with a barbecue and an extra beer? That was never going to be me.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“I am alight. I burn, become ash, then burn again.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“Life just isn’t going to go perfectly or even the way you want. And if you live in all those old wishes, holding on tight to how it should have been, you shrivel up. I know. I learned and I grew out there. I might be back in this place, but I haven’t shriveled here the way I could have. The way anyone would in the face of so many bad memories and worse choices. Instead, I’ve stood in my power, the way those ten years on my own taught me to. You learn or you die. Sometimes that death is long and drawn out and looks a lot like fear, but it’s a death all the same. You learn so you can live.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“The real ones have all that family stuff between them, and whether anyone wants it or not, it always gets in the way. But the sisters we choose come without baggage. Where a blood sister might argue with a story you tell about your life, a best friend embellishes it.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“I want to say that at least that’s better than doing it for attention, but I don’t, because I’m evolved as fuck.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“Time is mine until time takes me home.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“can smell him, vetiver and woodsmoke, magic and me.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells