Suzanne Palmieri > Quotes

“Regular people have such a hard time listening to the low hum of instinct.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“Mermaids don't drown.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“The truth is, time marches on and you have two choices: You move forward, come what may, and you experience all the sour and sweet things that fly at you from around corners, or you sit still. Don't sit still.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“Sometimes it's the smallest secrets that hold the most hope, the most fun, the most danger.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“Do you love her?' she asked him.
'Always have,' he said.
'Then why in the world would you leave her alone?”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“The only problem is the heart is quiet. It takes a very special kind of person to hear what the heart says. Most can't hear it at all and they have to guess. There are a lot of people walking around just guessing.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go.

"Aren't we all?" she said...”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“Love should never be a secret and it should never, ever be forgotten.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“You. You are standing in your own way. And that means whatever it is scares you. It won't forever...but take your time. Nothing good was ever rushed.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“I'm a Lost Witch. Are you a Lost Witch too?”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“Trees down south have a difference to them, a subtle, slinking movement, mile by mile- a gracefulness, a swagger. Lanky trees stretching out their wiry thin, Spanish moss-covered branches, moss that sways and beckons ... come here, come here, it says.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“Here's a secret to love," she said. "Always make sure that the man loves you just a breath more than you love him."
"Oh Mimi, I love your Papa more than any woman ever loved any man. And still, he loves me a breath more. It's the only healthy way. If a woman loves too much- if her love is heavier- she won't see anything but him. She'll be blind to the world. Women are made like that. We have to teach ourselves not to become obsessed. True love lies in peace, not torture.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“Magic is a funny term,' she'd say. 'There is nothing supernatural about the earth. As long as you know what does what.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“I'm an old man now. Old on the inside. I'm a drunk, and I hate to tell you, but I'm not prepared to change. So you have to figure out if you want to forgive me and love me like I am, or run away again. Or hell, stay here and hate me. Just...know that I love you the best way I know how. I always have. I do the best I can.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“You'll be just fine," he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“She remembered reading somewhere that Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. Eleanor wished there were a hundred ways to say her name. She thought, maybe, if her name was howled from all corners of the world, in a million different voices, that she might explode into a cloud of snow. Light and separate, her parts floating down onto the world in a series of beautiful crystalline moments.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“[P]eople think that in order for something to be frightening, it has to be dark, musty, and full of cobwebs and secrets. That's a lie of epic proportion. The scariest, most unexplainable things happen in the bright light of day. And just when you least expect.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you're going to stumble upon a secret place where everyone will jump out at you. And then, when you are the very last seeker, you start to wonder if you're the only person in the world. If the hiding place somehow sucked up the players and the last one has to decide to run away or get sucked up, too.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“When I was little, I thought it was terribly romantic, being half stardust, half Southern magnolia.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“She told us about how some people just had magic built into them. That her family firmly believed somehow, somewhere, at the very moment when the stars first erupted with a bang, stardust settled on only a few specks of life already forming in the sea. And how those few specks evolved into people who hold all sorts of unexplainable talents.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“I can still feel them there. His lips on mine. His words in my ear that day.
"Itsy, say you'll be my girl. My secret. Oh, please say it.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“But was it fate? Or was it our doing? I don't know.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“You can't measure other people's love, Sugar.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer, don't they?”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“Laughter layered the walls and clung to the dust mites, making them sparkle like lightning bugs in the daytime.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay

“There's a great deal of power in pretending.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay