Home > Work > Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1) QUOTES

Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1) QUOTES

1 " Ignorance is the worst plague of all, a form of blindness that destroys the hearts of the people who hide behind it. "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

2 " I wonder what I'm really doing out here with a magic dog, a trigger-happy girl and her mute sister, and a trail of dead witches in my wake. "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

3 " Words have power, for better or worse.
Like the smell of fresh rain on cut grass,
Or the stench of a decaying corpse,
Like the soft comfort of a warm blanket on your shoulders,
Or the agony of a dagger splitting your chest in two.
Use them wisely. "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

4 " But hope is an elusive thing, always there, but never where you expect it to be. After all, hope’s brother is despair, and they’re always working together to crush the minds and souls of even the strongest men and women. "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

5 " I glance back to the battle to find a witch with skin as dark as ebony screaming at the wizard, who’s near-on seven feet tall. Here we go, I think. They may be on the same side, but wizards and witches will never be friends. “It’s like reality TV,” Laney says. “The Real Housewitches of West Virginia. "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

6 " By my current count, this girl is at least three kinds of crazy, but I suspect that number will rise into the double digits soon enough. "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

7 " fear doesn’t go away just because you hide it. It’s still there, just below the surface or around the edges, lying in wait. You can never escape fear and you’re not supposed to, because fear’s a part of you, and fear’s what warns you when something’s not right. "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

8 " The President of the United States was never black or a woman until Obama and Collins. Just because something hasn't ever happened doesn't mean it won't. And anyway, being a hero transcends race and color and religion and age and gender. It's ordinary people doing things that are beyond what they think is possible, all for the sake of another. "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

9 " witching "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

10 " What we do with our lives, and how we are judged by others, should be entirely up to us. "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

11 " How do you know they’re all evil and deserve to die? Who made you judge, jury and executioner? "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

12 " Just because a group of humans goes around killing doesn’t make all humans evil, does it? Are you prepared to destroy all the Germans because of what Hitler and the Nazis did? Or what about the American pioneers? They slaughtered the Native Americans, are all of their descendants to be destroyed, too? "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

13 " politicians "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

14 " Words take moments and spin them into eternity. "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

15 " was every breath I took, every beat of my heart. She was the sun rising and setting, the moon and the stars and the planets and the galaxies. My one and done. My strength and my weakness. The beginning of my life; "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

16 " the earth even notice our struggles? Or are we nothing more than squatters on its blue/green/brown flanks? "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

17 " Correction. You’ll let the whole school know what you find out,” I say. "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)

18 " Xave. "

― David Estes , Brew (Salem's Revenge, #1)