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Spellbound Quotes

Spellbound by Cate Tiernan

"Today I met my future, and I'm dancing on sunlight!"
"The Goddess was in me, her life force, and I was awed by my own power."
"We don't think it's a good idea for boys to be in my room, because there's a bed in there!"
"It's not something you should decide lightly. It's a big thing, both for you and the other witch."
"The sooner you can protect yourself, the better."
"While I'm here, I'll help and protect you in any way I can. But you need to be strong with or without me. Promise me you'll work toward that."
"I felt something else, too—a feathery touch deep inside me, like delicate wings brushing against my very heart."
"Every Catspaw child hears of them, of course, and we're told scary stories about evil taibhs that steal the souls of Wiccan children who don't listen to their parents and teachers."
"Now I'm curled up on my bed, my wet hair flowing down my back like rain, and wondering which way I will choose: the safe, gentle, boring way of my parents or the way of Turneval, with its power and its evil twined together like a cord."
"She's deep, dark, terrifying sometimes, yet the glimmers of her power, the breadth of her learning, her strength and guile in dealing with the dark forces fill me with a giddy exhilaration."
"It hurt to associate those memories with this place, the place I had come to think of as my refuge, a lovely, scent-filled shop full of magickal books, essential oils, crystals, herbs, candles, and the deep, abiding peace of Wicca, permeating everything."
"I'm made of magick, I'm walking magick, and I cause death or life with the snap of my fingers."
"I want to know what she knows, have the power to do what she does, have control over what she controls. I want to become her."
"My quest is as leader of Starlocket. Help me open my consciousness to receive the wisdom I need to guide the women and men of my coven. Help me understand why I have been chosen as leader. Help me fulfill my duties with love."
"My personal quest is about my own nature. Am I more likely to lean toward evil because of my Woodbane blood? Will I have to fight it twice as hard as anyone else? How can I learn to recognize evil when I see it? Am I... can I escape the darkness?"
"Oddly, I felt more afraid than I had before, now that I had openly acknowledged my greatest fear."
"When I think back to who and what I was, it's like looking back at a different lifetime, a different person."
"I'm a changed woman, a changed witch. I'm a daughter of Amyranth, and that fact alone gives my life meaning and joy."
"Even to know they were dead would in some ways be better than this constant state of limbo."
"I didn't feel a thing. And that was all he said."
"The mysteries of Amyranth can't hold a candle to the mysteries of love."
"You're not just human, Morgan," Hunter said. "You're a witch. You have to start living up to that fact."
"I'm not blind. Maybe I am stupid. Mostly I'm just confused and scared and tempted."
"It's not enough for you to let me want you," he went on. "I need you to actually want me back and to be able to show me that."
"I had to put all my feelings toward him to rest or I would never be able to move forward."
"I knew I was doing something that could be dangerous. But I also knew I had to do it."
"I'm finished with Selene. She's my mother, and I always had a son's loyalty to her. But now I see that what she does is wrong."
"You complete me. You're my muirn beatha dan, my soul's other half."
"No, Cal. We're not going to be together. We're not muirn beatha dans."
"My leftover love for him died. I felt it in my heart, as if a dark shard of glass had been pulled out, leaving a bleeding wound."
"I felt like I was outside myself, watching this strange, frightening being who controlled the gravity of a world with her fingertips."
"I felt like a goddess; clean, light, pure, almost ethereal."
"I felt magick everywhere, flowing around me, in the air, in anything organic."
"I felt a pang of guilt, thinking of all the times I'd tried to talk to her but hadn't pushed her to open up to me."
"Be careful what you wish for, they say. Because you may get it."
"Nothing can be counted on. It's funny, for the most part."
"I've found out the reason Daniel goes to England so much: he has a girlfriend there."
"Fear is one of her weapons. Don't give in to it. Trust your instincts."
"I knew I would need every ounce of power I could possibly have."
"I feel no pain, I thought fiercely. I am fine. Everything in my life is perfect, whole, and complete. I am strength. I am power. I am magick."
"It was the most incredible magick I've ever made."
"I'm truly sorry I had to resort to these means. I assure you I've caused no harm to your sister."
"It's over, Selene," Hunter said in a voice like ice. "You've had a long run, but your days with Amyranth are done."
"I am made of magick. All of magick is mine for the taking."