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21 " I don't pay no mind to rules. Seems to me, rules are things made up by scared people too afraid to die, so they can't live. Or too lazy to make their own decisions. Rules are for breakin', as far as I'm concerned. "
― Suzanne Palmieri , The Witch of Belladonna Bay
22 " Trees down south have a difference to them, a subtle, slinking movement, mile by mile- a gracefulness, a swagger. Lanky trees stretching out their wiry thin, Spanish moss-covered branches, moss that sways and beckons ... come here, come here, it says. "
23 " You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go."Aren't we all?" she said... "
24 " Mermaids don't drown. "
25 " I'm a Lost Witch. Are you a Lost Witch too? "
― Suzanne Palmieri , The Witch of Little Italy
26 " Here's a secret to love," she said. "Always make sure that the man loves you just a breath more than you love him.""Oh Mimi, I love your Papa more than any woman ever loved any man. And still, he loves me a breath more. It's the only healthy way. If a woman loves too much- if her love is heavier- she won't see anything but him. She'll be blind to the world. Women are made like that. We have to teach ourselves not to become obsessed. True love lies in peace, not torture. "
27 " Magic is a funny term,' she'd say. 'There is nothing supernatural about the earth. As long as you know what does what. "
28 " You'll be just fine," he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both. "
29 " She remembered reading somewhere that Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. Eleanor wished there were a hundred ways to say her name. She thought, maybe, if her name was howled from all corners of the world, in a million different voices, that she might explode into a cloud of snow. Light and separate, her parts floating down onto the world in a series of beautiful crystalline moments. "
30 " She told us about how some people just had magic built into them. That her family firmly believed somehow, somewhere, at the very moment when the stars first erupted with a bang, stardust settled on only a few specks of life already forming in the sea. And how those few specks evolved into people who hold all sorts of unexplainable talents. "
31 " I can still feel them there. His lips on mine. His words in my ear that day."Itsy, say you'll be my girl. My secret. Oh, please say it. "
32 " When I was little, I thought it was terribly romantic, being half stardust, half Southern magnolia. "
33 " But was it fate? Or was it our doing? I don't know. "
34 " Laughter layered the walls and clung to the dust mites, making them sparkle like lightning bugs in the daytime. "
35 " You can't measure other people's love, Sugar. "
36 " Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer, don't they? "
37 " She told us about how some people just had magic built into them. That her family firmly believed somehow, somewhere, at the very moment when the stars first erupted with a bang, stardust settled on only a few specks of life already forming in the sea. And how those few specks evolved into people who hold all sorts of unexplainable talents. When I was little I thought it was terribly romantic, being half stardust, half Southern magnolia. "
38 " What did you say to me Itsy? The day when you broke your silence?"Itsy shrugged and shuffled back into her own apartment. "
39 " Spring came slowly to the Bronx with a lot of rain & soft water-color tree blossoms. "
40 " No matter how silly I think it all is, society is still society and we are not free of the burdens of hate. "