The Witch of Tin Mountain Quotes

“It was surreal, how everything continued, how everything kept on after a person died. Shouldn’t time stop for grief, even for a moment, so one might catch their breath before things started moving again?”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realize that home is less about the place you live, and more about the people who love you. The memories you make. The laughter and tears and all the moments in between.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“And I also understand that bein’ a woman ain’t the easiest thing, and sometimes a woman’s got to find her peace and happiness wherever she can.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years I been helping Granny deliver babies and work her cures, it’s that ladies are miles tougher than menfolk, and much nicer patients, too.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“Life’s just one burden after another, till we die. But it’s the happy things—the good things—that make it all worthwhile.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“you can’t put much trust in people who want what you have on Thursdays but won’t talk to you come Sunday morning.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“I’m pretty good at faking brave. When something or someone is important enough to me.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“They’d both marry soon, as they must, and their forbidden love would become a memory left to grow bittersweet, like overripe fruit on the vine.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“may be new to witching, but I wasn’t born yesterday.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“Fear and desire make a confusing tangle in my chest. I’m intoxicated with the feel of Abby’s kisses, her love, but I’m also afraid. Bellflower saw us. He knows what we are, now. And if I’ve learned anything about preachers, demon possessed or not, they’ve got no use for our kind of love.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“opened the grimoire again. The scent of dried geraniums wafted out. Each time she opened the book, the scent changed slightly. Sometimes it smelled like dirt or fresh-mown hay. Other times it smelled like ashes and fire. And the words themselves shifted and moved. Things were never in the same order. The book seemed to know her thoughts and reflect them back to her.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“Robbie Cash may not be to your liking, but if he comes to me and asks for her hand, I’ll give my blessing.” Deirdre smiled. Pa approved of Robbie! It was all she needed to hear.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“Wherever a witch’s blood is spilled, a curse remains on the land. That’s the saying, all right. Nobody ever blames the men that do the killing and the burning, do they? Instead, they blame the witch.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“There was darkness everywhere in Tin Mountain. You just had to know where to look.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“Folks acted their best on Sunday morning—all smiles and hands clasped in prayer. But the same hands hurt and killed, then buried their sins in shallow graves so they might dig them up late at night, after they’d put God to sleep.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“I’ve learned enough to know you can’t put much trust in people who want what you have on Thursdays but won’t talk to you come Sunday morning.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“Folks always got something wicked to say about people who are different, don’t they?”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“tears and all the moments in between. Home is Esme and Granny,”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“It was surreal, how everything continued, how everything kept “on” after a person died. Shouldn’t time stop for grief, even for a moment, so one might catch their breath before things started moving again?”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“An orchid in a field full of cow parsley.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“However, this novel is in no way an indictment of Christianity, or religion, but of hypocrisy. In my opinion, the most effective tool an evil being, fictional or otherwise, can use against us is our own capacity to judge others more harshly than we judge ourselves.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“But I’ve learned enough to know you can’t put much trust in people who want what you have on Thursdays but won’t talk to you come Sunday morning.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“Why is it that most of a woman’s troubles in life have to do with a man?”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“Listen to me, girl. There’s a certain kind of evil in this world that seeks our kind. And I don’t mean to lose you to it.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“Life’s just one burden after another, till we die. But it’s the happy things—the good things—that make it all worthwhile. Things like kisses.”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain

“The clock on the mantle ticked on, measuring the time that Mama would never experience again. It was surreal, how everything continued, how everything kept on after a person died. Shouldn’t time stop for grief, even for a moment, so one might catch their breath before things started moving again?”
― Paulette Kennedy, The Witch of Tin Mountain