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“Who knows why we were taught to Fear the Witches
And not those that burned them
Or those who stood by, watching.”
― Affinity Soul

“You don’t notice the bars of the cage,â€� Beata said, “unless you start to throw yourself against them. Surviving is a choice too.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

“Who knows why we were taught to Fear the Witches
And not those that burned them
Or those who stood by watching.”
― Affinity Soul

“Every day she was becoming a little less human, a little more of a monster.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

“You threw me to the wolves
And look what happened.

I called out to the Goddess
Who worked her golden magic.

And then I came back
Leading the whole fucking pack.”
― Rachel Louise Finn, The Witch Had The Last Laugh After All

“Night did strange things to a place, to people, splashing shadow over familiar sights and faces, painting the world and its inhabitants as darker versions of themselves.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

“I’ve tasted freedom. I’ve tasted hearts and it’s changed me.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

“Marynka was Midday. Her opposite. Her rival. Her. . . Was there even a word for a rival who you also wanted to kiss? Whatever she was, Marynka was the very last person she should be having those sorts of thoughts about.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

“Stalked by wolves, eaten by witches, and trapped in a tower for over a decade. No one's life is a fairytale, or at least I would hope not!”
― Carolyn Watson Dubisch, The Curse

“That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.First off,love is something storybooks invented to keep girls busy.Second,I hate Tedros.Third,he thinks I'm an evil witch,which given my recent behaviour,might be true.Now let me through.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“I had a little pride, as I have said, and that was good. More would have been fatal.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I long for all I’ve lost and the witch old woman tells me that the shadows which go away always return.”
― Maria Polydouri

“You sharpened my teeth into points,
And cursed when I sank them into your flesh.
By the time I realised I could stop biting,
I turned around to find I had nothing left.”
― Rachel Louise Finn, The Witch Had The Last Laugh After All

“She’d learned to use that darkness, learned how to fold herself into shadow until she was a slither of the night itself, learned how to grow claws and steal prince’s hearts. She’d learned to bide her time and wait for the best moment to strike.
Really, Black Jaga could hardly claim to be shocked by Zosia’s actions. She was the one who had shaped Zosia into what she was, the one who had raised her. Wasn’t she the monster the old witch had wished for? The monster she’d crafted in her own image.
You made me, Grandmother. Am I not everything you wanted me to be?
The witch had only herself to blame.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

“I'm not a lady. I'm a witch.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“A witch pays attention to everything that’s going on.
A witch uses her head.
A witch is sure of herself.
A witch always has a piece of string.
(...)”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“All mother witches blew in from Egypt and other ancient African air.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“Some days I even think, Maybe being a witch isn’t so bad. When they were burned at the stake it was for being independent and strong-minded, for knowing how to cure illnesses with herbs, for hiking around in the woods to collect said herbs, and for being sexually uninhibited. Independent, wise, vigorous, outdoorsy, and sexy. I aspire.”
― Mina Samuels, Run Like a Girl 365 Days a Year: A Practical, Personal, Inspirational Guide for Women Athletes

“In many ways, fear of the witch has always been a fear of women’s power. But it was also a fear of women congregating and doing things together. Women who went to see other women were obviously going to a witchesâ€� sabbath to dance with the devil. What else would they be doing?”
― Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

“Also I do not know who needs to fucking hear this. But the gods really can fucking manifest here. They choose to come here. They choose to change with the stories that are told about them. They choose to take the credit humans give them for things they aren't 100% of the time truly responsible for. They can perform miracles. They can shapeshift. They can take vessels. The fairy realm is a real fucking place outside the astral you can visit. These things are fucking real and have value and power and if you are on this path or stupid enough to disregard all that you are A, either going to get yourself killed or B, will never truly learn the secrets you’re meant to learn, rise as high as your meant to rise, or power yourself with what you can. If you are really so vein and stupid not to believe they are real or can do these types of things? How dare you call yourself a fucking witch.”
― Acrians Locket

“And that is your downfall. The things to fear don't always scream the loudest.”
― Beverley Lee, A Shining in the Shadows

“Well, ours have old souls,â€� her eyes glint again in the candlelight. “The cats here really do have nine lives, but not in the way you might think. Our cats come back to live again in different bodies, nine full lifetimes for our little ones. Our familiars. It means they can stay with a witch throughout her entire life, living side by side. Because a witch and her familiar is a bond for eternity. A witch’s cat won’t die until she does.”
― Kassandra Cross, Black Magic

“The staff regarded her woodenly”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“Some days I even think, Maybe being a witch isn’t so bad. When they were burned at the stake it was for being independent and strong-minded, for knowing how to cure illnesses with herbs, for hiking around in the woods to collect said herbs, and for being sexually uninhibited.”
― Mina Samuels, Run Like a Girl 365 Days a Year: A Practical, Personal, Inspirational Guide for Women Athletes

“Witchcraft stemmed from woman’s insatiable lust, he imagined. Her vagina just couldn’t get enough. Just look at its form! It was these deeply insalubrious desires that supposedly put woman in contact with the devil and led her to ruin.”
― Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

“Where would you even go if you were free?â€� Beata continued. “East? West? You have no money. No family. No friends. You think your life would be better anywhere else?â€�

Again, Zosia didn’t answer. It had never been about having a specific place or destination in mind. It was the possibility to choose, to go anywhere, wherever the mood and the wind took her. The freedom to decide her own path no matter where it might lead, the freedom to craft her own destiny.”
― Alicia Jasinska, The Midnight Girls

“The practice was steeped in worship of the Old Gods. A feminine aspect of the Wild, the Hunt, the Moons, called Fiáin. But the Holy Church beat the paganism out of the Ossians over time. A few traditions survived. Women fought in wars beside their men. Women had the rule of the hearth. But instead of Fiáin, local worship shifted to the Mothermaid after the Wars of the Faith. There were more churches and abbeys devoted to her in the Ossway than anywhere else in the empire.â€� Gabriel leaned back, sipped at his wine. ‘It was only in the most remote corners where the ancient ways truly lived on. Old World religion. Worship of Fiáin. Wild Hunts. Fae witchery. All rare enough to be considered folklore by most. But the silversaints knew better.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“And that is your downfall. The things to fear don't always scream the loudest.”
― Beverly Lee

“Wands have ambition too...”
― Luna Martin, Wands and Wine: Merry Meet Cozy Witch Mysteries - Book 1

“The world has fully lost touch with the old ways. Magic has always stayed so well hidden and out of sight that now it’s nothing but a myth. The preposterous, and the unthinkable.”
― Kassandra Cross, Black Magic