Jessica Dodge > Quotes

“Well, they do, you know. An abandoned house will become depressed and give up on holding its walls up and its roof steady. But a house full of joy and love will hold fast and strong for the people it keeps dear inside. It starts with the first person to lay a brick into place, putting their love and care into it, then on to the first owners, filling its walls with hopes and dreams and all the generations to come with their loves and losses. How can a house not feel?”
― Jessica Dodge, The Forgotten Witch

“An abandoned house will become depressed and give up on holding its walls up and its roof steady. But a house full of joy and love will hold fast and strong for the people it keeps dear inside. It starts with the first person to lay a brick into place, putting their love and care into it, then on to the first owners, filling its walls with hopes and dreams and all the generations to come with their loves and losses. How can a house not feel?”
― Jessica Dodge, The Forgotten Witch

“She considered herself a creature of the in-between. She was the dusk, the perfect mixture of light and darkness.”
― Jessica Dodge, The Forgotten Witch

“The triquetra symbolizes eternal spiritual life, one with no beginning and no end. The Christians adopted it as a symbol for the holy trinity but the symbol is much, much older, dating back to the eleventh century. It is considered one of the oldest symbols of spirituality. The three-pointed knot represents Life, Death, and Rebirth. The circle around it creates the unity of the three parts.”
― Jessica Dodge, The Forgotten Witch

“A circle formed from sticks and stones. The seeds of life in the form of cones, the rocks for strength, the sticks for kin, protect whoever may step within.”
― Jessica Dodge, The Forgotten Witch

“We all know what kinds of things happen when people start to fear one another.”
― Jessica Dodge, The Forgotten Witch

“that hush of particular places where words slept on paper. She flipped the switch,”
― Jessica Dodge, The Messengers of Magic

“Funny how smells have the capacity to take you to a certain time and place; they could be the closest thing to time travel we have,”
― Jessica Dodge, Misplaced Magic