J.S. Watts QUOTES

1 " Holly girl, you are all too human, I can assure you. Prickly and awkward and human, because that's what witches are - human, that is, not necessarily the prickly and annoying bit. That's just you. "

― J.S. Watts , Witchlight

2 " The heart's optimism always
conquers reality "

― J.S. Watts , Songs of Steelyard Sue

3 " It was all about getting the power and keeping the power, not about how you coped with the power once it was yours for keeps. "

― J.S. Watts , Old Light

4 " What you cannot lay to rest
Must therefore be laid aside

From the poem "Moors Child" published in the poetry collection "Cats and Other Myths "

― J.S. Watts

5 " I am the dreamer and not the dream, from "Kenilworth "

― J.S. Watts , Cats and Other Myths

6 " These are amongst the last memories I shall relinquish to the page, though I am hanging onto them for now and for as long as I can. When they are gone, will there be anything left of me? Am I nothing but memory? "

― J.S. Watts , A Darker Moon

7 " Plus, a very wise man once said to me, "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. "

― J.S. Watts , Elderlight

8 " The sea is old and getting older/ but without noticeably ageing - /water is always now "

― J.S. Watts , The Submerged Sea

9 " the flicker of a memory
is all we can cling to
for our cherished ghosts

From "Cat Paws on a Windscreen "

― J.S. Watts , Years Ago You Coloured Me