You could at least complain,” I say. “I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.

It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.

Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

Even a witch wants sympathy.

Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

But witchy magic doesn’t listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn’t really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.

Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to the next.

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

they were forbidden words, laced with the fear of transgression and sin.

Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.

Jesus has prayed over us that our faith in Him will not fail but rather be strengthened by the process we go through.

I mean, my age is just a number. So what if you were born in the era when they still used rotary phones and cassette tapes? I think it’s cute.

Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not just for entertaining us, although that would be enough.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until the very essence of the Bible flows from you.

They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now.