48 quotes
No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way. (p84)
Practical Magic (1995)
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
The Dovekeepers (2011)
I wrote to remind myself that in the darkest hour the roses still bloom, the stars still come out at night (preface)
Survival Lessons (2013)
He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul. (p348)
The World That We Knew (2019)
He wondered why it was only when you were at the end of your life that it was possible to view it with honesty and truth.
The World That We Knew (2019)
What you dream, you can grow.
Green Witch (2010)
What they held in common was their aloneness, and in time, thrown together, with no world other than their own, they grew close. (p103)
The World That We Knew (2019)
The lonelier you are, the more you pull away, until humans seem an alien race, with customs and a language you can't begin to understand. (p145)
Practical Magic (1995)
In a way, I feel survival is always my subject matter.
Interview (2015)
For me, magic is reading and writing.
Reddit AMA (2021)
I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That’s the secret, you know. That’s the way you change your fate.
The Rules of Magic (2017)
I don’t think about rules when I’m writing – that’s the great thing about writing: it’s the one place in my life that I can do whatever I want.
Interview (2015)
For people who want to be a writer—and maybe this is true for anything you want to be in life—if one person believes in you, that's enough. And my grandmother really believed in me.
Interview with Goodreads (2017)
It was a wonder, a message that all things were possible, even in this cruel world. (p215)
The World That We Knew (2019)
The most she dared to wish for now was to live long enough to become a woman. (p46)
The World That We Knew (2019)
Two brilliant colleagues who were now wearing rags, carrying their children on their backs, thinking of starvation rather than algebra. (p116)
The World That We Knew (2019)
Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think. (p59)
Practical Magic (1995)
You are the man I admired most of all, Julien would say to him if he could, if they were lying side by side watching the universe expand all around them. (p283)
The World That We Knew (2019)
This is how it began, out of water, out of clay, out of air, when it was not expected, when it should have never happened, when no one else understood who she was. (p113)
The World That We Knew (2019)
Human lives were like quicksilver; let go and they vanished. But not this time. (p319)
The World That We Knew (2019)