48 quotes
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Here on Earth (1997)
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.
Practical Magic (1995)
Artists have themes that they go back to—that they are haunted by and obsessed with.
Interview with Goodreads (2009)
The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
The Foretelling (2005)
Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
The Dovekeepers (2011)
Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
The Dovekeepers (2011)
She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.
The Red Garden (2011)
I always think it helps not to think about anyone reading your work, but to write what you would want to read.
Reddit AMA (2021)
Know that the only remedy for love is to love more.
The Rules of Magic (2017)
There's a little witch in all of us.
Practical Magic (1995)
If you are loved, you never lose the person who loved you. You carry them with you all your life.
The World That We Knew (2019)
I think that I always wanted to tell the stories of women who were not able to tell their own stories.
Reddit AMA (2021)
I always feel you're writing the book you couldn't find, so you have to write it yourself.
Other people’s judgments were meaningless unless you allowed them to mean something.
The Rules of Magic (2017)
This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.
The Dovekeepers (2011)
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
Blackbird House (2004)
I usually do start with setting. I try to build a fictional world, and then hope that the characters will walk into it.
Reddit AMA (2021)
The persecution of people who are different, whether it's women as witches, whether it's Jews, whoever it is, it always comes from the same place of being against anyone who's different. Fear of the other.
That’s still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.
Interview (2014)
Every now and then a crow would soar past with a gold ring or coat button in its beak, a shiny souvenir of murder. (p298)
The World That We Knew (2019)