Hazel Beck > Quotes

“Because women should claim their power. We all know who benefits when they don’t, and it isn’t us.”
― Hazel Beck, Small Town, Big Magic

“But I have always believed that a woman's best and biggest champion should be herself. The world sure isn't going to step up and cheer on its own.”
― Hazel Beck, Small Town, Big Magic

“Do not stand in your mistakes, seek to fix them.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“And happiness is the one thing that can’t be planned. It has to be grabbed and savored.”
― Hazel Beck, Small Town, Big Magic

“All those books have it right—we just have to be willing to fight our way to the good stuff. Because we’re all worthy of fairy-tale endings, happy-ever-afters, and the love of a thousand lifetimes.”
― Hazel Beck, Dragon Fires Everywhere

“We’re all the princess in our own story. Don’t let anyone tell you different. And it’s up to you to pick up that sword and fight for your own heart, no matter how dark it gets along the way to a life full of light.”
― Hazel Beck, Dragon Fires Everywhere

“And I have spent my entire life in training for the handling of difficult men. Like every other woman alive.”
― Hazel Beck, Small Town, Big Magic

“You can’t fix the world until you sort out your own backyard. I intend to do both.”
― Hazel Beck, Small Town, Big Magic

“Love is a powerful magic,” he says. “Is that archaic? Or is it a fundamental truth of life?”
― Hazel Beck, Small Town, Big Magic

“This is not regret. This is the blooming of a part of myself I’ve never encountered before. Maybe it’s always been there, hidden away, this part of me that’s his. As if I have been, always and ever, only his.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“You can make mistakes, Rebekah. You can disappoint me. But you have never and will never lose my love. Or my belief that you can do better and be better.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“Men are applauded for embellishing the truth while women are seen as very confident for telling the truth, and very confident is never a compliment.”
― Hazel Beck, Small Town, Big Magic

“and understand, against my will, that life is nothing but change. You live, you learn, you lose.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“Life hurts. Love hurts. Maybe hurting is how you know it's working--like every healer's cure I've ever taken, the ache is how you heal. The pain is the whole point. This is how a person is alive, not numbed into nothingness. Not hiding and ignoring and twisting all that hurt into anger. Anger is heavy; sometimes, it doesn't serve.”
― Hazel Beck, Truly Madly Magically

“You don’t want to sit around talking about boys when we have more important things to discuss,” I say in withering tones. “Have you ever heard of the Bechdel test?” “Many times,” Georgie says sadly. “It’s your favorite lecture. I still like boys.”
― Hazel Beck, Small Town, Big Magic

“it almost feels like I might cry, except I never cry, because a woman’s tears are too often weaponized against her.”
― Hazel Beck, Small Town, Big Magic

“It’s too much to think about everything it took to get here. Too much to think of all that lies ahead. So I just focus on this. Here. Now. Him. Us.”
― Hazel Beck, Truly Madly Magically

“But Grandma, they all saw.” And the good thing about having conversations with my long-dead loved ones is that no explanations are necessary. She knows what they saw. Just as she knows who showed them. She slides her arm around me. “Then, child, let them see you, for a change. Let them love you. I’ll let you in on a secret. They already do.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“No one is ever perfect,” Grandma is saying in her quietly fierce way. “Not an ageless witch. Not the first Diviner we’ve seen in St. Cyprian in decades. Not Emerson or your parents or even me. There is no standard you need to meet, except your own.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“I suck in a deep breath, and it feels like all that peace I struggled to grasp out there. All those retreats, all those yoga challenges, all those tarot cards, and it was just this. Just love.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“Maybe the thing about really, truly being okay is choosing to be. And the doing it.”
― Hazel Beck, Truly Madly Magically

“Evil so often hides in plain sight, under endless speeches and bureaucratic red tape most people don’t have the energy to wade through.”
― Hazel Beck, Truly Madly Magically

“The real ones have all that family stuff between them, and whether anyone wants it or not, it always gets in the way. But the sisters we choose come without baggage. Where a blood sister might argue with a story you tell about your life, a best friend embellishes it.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“Fear. Shame. Grief. I gripped them all so hard I made marks. I dug in. I called myself an addict to everything I refused to let go of. I wrapped them tight around me and built a new life on top of them and letting them go makes me feel...almost tipsy. But free.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“Life just isn’t going to go perfectly or even the way you want. And if you live in all those old wishes, holding on tight to how it should have been, you shrivel up. I know. I learned and I grew out there. I might be back in this place, but I haven’t shriveled here the way I could have. The way anyone would in the face of so many bad memories and worse choices. Instead, I’ve stood in my power, the way those ten years on my own taught me to. You learn or you die. Sometimes that death is long and drawn out and looks a lot like fear, but it’s a death all the same. You learn so you can live.”
― Hazel Beck, Big Little Spells

“Because none of it is true, or even really about her, so why should she care? The angry things people say behind your back and even to your face have more to do with them than the person you are.”
― Hazel Beck, Truly Madly Magically

“Men are applauded for embellishing the truth while women are seen as very confident for telling the truth—and very confident is never a compliment.”
― Hazel Beck, Small Town, Big Magic

“Grandma made the bookstore look like a home, encouraging customers to treat it like an extension of theirs. The lower level is decorated like a parlor. Couches and tables are piled high with comfort genre reads and antique lamps. In the back, there is a children’s area set up like a child’s bedroom, complete with a tent that looks like a canopy bed that Georgie has been known to commandeer after hours. Upstairs a room is outfitted like a kitchen and filled with cookbooks on shelves and spilling out of the antique wood stove. Next to the kitchen area, a shelf was built around the window that looks out over Main Street and appears more like a nook in a garden shed than a bookshelf. Some shelves hold gardening tools, a mix of fake and real plants, and the rest hold the gardening selection, from coffee table books with to-die-for photographs of peonies to how-to guides.”
― Hazel Beck, Small Town, Big Magic

“She trails off. Then she shakes her head and gets that dreamy look about her that I’ve come to realize is her disguise. I used to think she was an airhead. Now I think she likes people to think that she is.”
― Hazel Beck, Truly Madly Magically

“I love you. I’ve always loved you. I never needed fate to tell me that. It’s like breathing. Everything you are is everything I want.”
― Hazel Beck, Small Town, Big Magic