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41 " Cooper smelled damage a mile away. He knew she'd never run. She'd never tell. "
― Suzanne Palmieri , The Witch of Little Italy
42 " Sugar, the things we hold closest to our hearts are the things we just can't seem to see." Jackson Whalen "
― Suzanne Palmieri , The Witch of Belladonna Bay
43 " It isn't only trouble that comes up behind you, Mama, it's sorrow too. "
44 " I like the dark," she said. "Ain't it just like a big blue blanket wrappin' us up with comfort? "
45 " Everyone has a dark side. This is pure fact. I can see it like a shadow behind them all the time. "
46 " We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their whole lives so scared of dyin' that they never get to live. Spend their whole lives pushin' down that darkness, until there ain't no light at all. "
47 " Last week you looked at me with love. You wanted to touch me. Last week I was happy. Now? Who are you? I don’t even recognize you. "
48 " I'm like the moon," he started, "the hidden side of the moon. Not seen because it don't want to be seen. Everyone knows ther's is shadow there, but no one looks. It's like that with me, Byrd. I'm part illuminated, part in shadow-and that part that shines is all you ever wanted to see. But it kept getting smaller, and now it's dark. I'm a new moon now, Byrd. All there is, is shadow. Can you still see me? Do you still love me? "
49 " Right don’t mean shit, not if everyone around you is bent on bein’ wrong. "
50 " Life," said Simone St. James..."is stitched together from a series of mistakes, some little, some big, like the patches on the clothes we wore growin' up, you know "
― Suzanne Palmieri , The Witch of Bourbon Street
51 " But, small family or not, they could yell large. "
52 " Ifn’ you love someone, you love ’em. Can’t do nothin’ ’bout it,” she said. “Can’t I put a spell on myself not to love her? A voodoo spell or somethin’? "
53 " We gotta let people go, don’t we? If we hold on to them with all that anger, resentment, love … whatever, we strangle them. "
54 " Why do you suppose we do that, push ourselves away from those we love right when we need them the most? "
55 " I don’t belong here anymore, Paddy. I don’t know that I ever did.” “Seems to me, you’re gonna get yourself lost, BitsyWyn. And then I’ll probably be the one to have to haul your sorry ass back home,” he said "
56 " What I didn’t know back then, is that I was cold. I’d turned off the longing, knowing that if I let one bit of weakness in, I’d tumble down that rabbit hole of sorrow. "
57 " When it was over, he said, “I’ve been waiting for you, you little lost thing,” and I cried, because he’d acknowledged what my gypsy legs knew all along. "
58 " Hindsight is something everyone falls prey to, even those of us with a little magic. "
59 " 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. "
60 " You don’t need no fancy ESP when someone’s hurtin’. You can guess. "