Bruce Jenvey > Quotes

“And to do something that helps your coven survive, even after your own death, is the greatest gift you can possibly give them…”
--Angela from Angela’s Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey

“The loneliest place to spend eternity is your own life after you can't change it anymore."
--Lucifer from Kevin”
― Bruce Jenvey, Kevin

“Obsession is an addiction you may never shake free of. It just… holds you and never gives anything in return. But love, you can give all you’ve got to love and it always gives you back more. That’s how you can tell the difference between the two. I know that now.”
--Robyn Hannaford from The Great Northern Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey

“Do I at least get to keep the toothbrush?”
“Sure. Unless you can get it back in that wrapper and seal it up all nice and new. Well, that’s what the last girl did. See,
you can hardly tell it’s been opened!”
--Reggie Sinclair from Angela's Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey, Angela's Coven

“I know... that's why you're down here and not enjoying some picnic in a golden meadow amongst the harps and puffy clouds."
--Lucifer from Angela's Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey, Angela's Coven

“You have touched the Eagle-Man! ...Well, you may have done more than just touch..."
--Dorothy Whitecloud from The Great Northern Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey

“Dear, Mr. Ajax…don’t ye know…the fires of Hell are stoked by righteous lawyers! Tis a fact it is. All that hot air… How’d ya think they get that Brimstone so hot?”
--Old Tom Goodling from Angela's Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey

“I haven't baked a child in... decades!"
--Aunt Maddy from Anbgela's Coven #covenbooks”
― Bruce Jenvey

“What are a few false promises among friends, angel?”
“They’re the difference between you and me … that’s what they are.” --Vernon Kraft meets Ajax in The Ragtime Coven, coming soon!”
― Bruce Jenvey

“Little Marjorie was born an only child some forty years ago. She had lost her mother at a young age and her father never remarried. All her life she had been cursed with the need for her ‘coke-bottle’ glasses with the practical over-sized frames. And then there was the unfortunate appearance of her protruding front teeth. She had always been a slight child, but when children begin to grow into young men and women, slight becomes scrawny and her lack of fashion-sense and self-worth had sealed her social fate. Marjorie had never gone to Prom, nor any dance for that matter, and when the boys chose mates and began the next phase of the great circle of life…little Marjorie Morningstar had not been included. --From The Great Northern Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey, The Great Northern Coven

“Let me get this straight: You want to poison me nearly to death, put me out to the side of the road and then set me on fire, right?"
"...It sounded a lot better when we were out in the mushroom patch."
"Those must have been SOME mushrooms!"
--Reggie Sinclair and The Witches in Training from Angela's Coven.”
― Bruce Jenvey

“Oh, Lady Emma… I like to think there’s a little bit of witch in all of us. Don’t you agree?”
--Andrea from Angela's Coven #covenbooks”
― Bruce Jenvey

“Without the brandy, it’s just… crumbled up tes leaves floatin’ in warm
water… and what fun would that be?”
--Aunt Maddy from Angela's Coven #covenbooks”
― Bruce Jenvey

“I always thought the Nativity Story needed a little comic releif..."
--Ron Shawver from The Great Northern Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey

“People who buy the little jars and boxes aren’t staying. They only want enough to last them while they’re here.”
--Ginger the Checkout girl from The Great Northern Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey, The Great Northern Coven

“What the hell are you doing here?” Ajax asked.
“Might ask you the same thing, ‘cept the hell part would be a lot more relevant.” --Vernon Kraft from The Ragtime Coven (coming soon!)”
― Bruce Jenvey

“Who told you I've been losing?"
"You did!"
"Well, THERE'S your trouble! I've been lyin'!"
--Ron Shawver and his Mom from The Great Northern Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey

“No, they’re just black vinyl. Probably somebody else’s record that didn’t sell for shit and they got stuck with a bunch of leftovers. They hit it with some spray paint and stick a commemorative label on it and you’ve got your ‘Official Gold Record.’ Kind of ironic though, isn’t it…marking your success with someone else’s failure.”
--Reggie Sinclair from Angela's Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey

“War changes everything. The world is never the same after a war. Any war. There are holes… missing parts… The best you can do is pick up the pieces that are left and start to build again. It’ll never be the way it was before.”
--Vernon Kraft from The Ragtime Coven (coming later this year!)”
― Bruce Jenvey

“I actually cook and eat real food, too.
No roast Hansel, no grilled Gretel…I promise.”
--Angela from Angela's Coven #covenbooks”
― Bruce Jenvey

“It’s an invention of mine… I call it… Shag Carpet. Women will LOVE it. At first, anyway… And then they’ll be STUCK with it! But I’m saving that for the ‘70s.”
--Lucifer from Angela’s Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey

“You've weaponized mums... and you've made so MANY of them!"
--Reggie Sinclair from Angela's Coven.”
― Bruce Jenvey

“There are people who walk this Earth who truly belong in Hell. Sometimes, we have to move ‘em along a little… point the way.” --Vernon Kraft, Avenging Angel from The Ragtime Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey, The Ragtime Coven

“You can't reinvent yourself using spare parts..."
--Barry Randall from My Father's Ashes”
― Bruce Jenvey, My Father's Ashes: A Young Man's Journey Through His Father's Life

“Lucifer sharpened his gaze and focused on Ajax. “Yes… I want you to drive over to New Jersey, load those two corpses into your car and take them back to the Italians… personally”
“In my car?”
“They haven’t been in the water more than a week, Ajax.”
“But actually… inside?”
“Well,” Lucifer’s patience was fading, “If you tie them to the fenders like you’re coming back from Deer Camp, the Italians might not find you quite as endearing…”
--Lucifer and Ajax from The Ragtime Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey, The Ragtime Coven

“Well, next time that Gerry Rees comes in, send him to me,” Lois threatened. “I’ll wait until he’s nice and distracted and then boom, I’ll pull out the brass knuckles!”
“You’ll do no such thing!” Maggie warned her. “That’d hurt everyone’s business here! …And you got brass knuckles? Where the hell did you get brass knuckles?”
“They been in the family for years. Grandpap had ‘em down on the docks.” Lois admitted.
“Lois being the oldest, they went to her…” Margaret added.
“Well, just the same, we can’t afford anyone leaving any traceable marks on the gentlemen around here.”
--Maggie Pollaski with the Raterink Sisters from The Ragtime Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey, The Ragtime Coven

“I don’t know if you picked up on the elephant in the room… but we’re witches. Angela, Andrea, me, and Evelyn and Celia back home.”--Aunt Maddy from The Ragtime Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey, The Ragtime Coven

“Apple Brandy?”
“It’s for my tea,” she explained. “Medicinal, you know.”
“Medicinal?” The Reverend tried to hide a smile.
“Well, yeah,” Maddy started to smile herself. “Without the brandy, it’d be just some crumpled up leaves floatin’ in warm water… and that’d just make me sick!”
--Aunt Maddy from The Ragtime Coven”
― Bruce Jenvey, The Ragtime Coven