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A Lullaby for Witches QUOTES

A Lullaby for Witches QUOTES

1 " Here is what I know to be true: we are part of something larger, something more beautiful than we could ever comprehend. During our brief tenure on this earth, we see but only a glimpse of the world around us. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

2 " Do you know what it is to be lonely? Truly alone, even amidst a crowd? Even in a family? "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

3 " But what I'm beginning to realize is that I don't need to find myself. I've been here all along. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

4 " He thought Augusta had a split personality or something and wanted his sister to check her out. First, he had thought she had a substance abuse problem, and now he thought it was mental illness. Why couldn’t he see that it was something that went beyond all logical explanations? "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

5 " They have a picnic at the house once a year, but the public isn’t invited. I guess since we don’t have royalty in America some people like to imagine that they’re above everyone else because of their bloodline. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

6 " Augusta, we’re really excited to have you here. Your references had nothing but great things to say about you, and you bring a lot of knowledge and valuable experience to Harlowe House. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

7 " Mostly I remember thinking that I was going to be pretty fucking mad if a one-hundred-fifty-year-old lovers’ quarrel was the reason I’d never get to see you again. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

8 " Oh, yes you do. You and I are different from the rest of them. We could never bind ourselves to someone who doesn’t understand us. The Ida Fosters of the world are all well and good for George and Clarence, but not for the likes of us. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

9 " But there are prices to be paid for such magic, and balances to be kept. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

10 " You’re a monster,” he murmured. “You have lived under this roof for all these years, and there has been a darkness festering inside of you the whole time. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

11 " Why exactly did people think hiking was anything other than an exercise in self-inflicted torture? Nature was meant to be enjoyed from a picnic blanket or well-lit patio with lots of cold drinks and easy access to indoor plumbing. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

12 " He was looking at her as if she was Prometheus bringing fire to humanity. “You’re a lifesaver, thank you. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

13 " hear things,” she said without looking up. “Things about a certain young man meeting a certain young lady in the woods at night and making love to her. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

14 " Last year a guy dressed as the Joker got really drunk and smashed a bunch of gravestones "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

15 " Did she really owe him anything? Or did she owe herself the chance to be happy, whether that led to another relationship or not? "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

16 " There was a reason why after weeks of Jack promising that he would sway his parents that he had hadn’t been round to ask my father’s permission. There was a reason why he had not come for me to elope. All the love potions and spells and prayers couldn’t save me. Oh, how could I have let myself fall in love! "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

17 " Either way, it was lonely to lie so close next to someone, yet feel so very far away. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

18 " The Victorians were notoriously prudish when it came to scandals and love affairs, and Augusta had come across more than one case when a zealous descendant had decided to take things into their own hands and censor the historical record. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

19 " Henry might have thought that he had laid my doubts to rest, but he had only strengthened the idea that there was something no one was telling "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches

20 " didn’t want to go home. I didn’t want to see Henry’s smug face when he learned that Jack had betrayed me, that he had been right all along. I didn’t want to go sit with people who had lied to me for years about who I was, people who had stolen me away from my mother. "

― Hester Fox , A Lullaby for Witches