April Aasheim > Quotes

“There are some secrets darker than witchcraft." - Aunt Dora”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“I’ve sworn off men. All they do is break your heart and eat your junk food.” - Maggie Maddock”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“The twitchy man leered at me through the bus window.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“Books were her one true love. A love that didn’t abandon her when times were tough. A love that whispered everything would be fine by stories’ end.”
― April Aasheim, Gifted Magick

“For secrets, once told, lose all their power.  And love, lived in the light, erases all the darkness of the soul.”
― April Aasheim, The Magick of Dark Root

“No Maggie, real love is self-sacrificing. It’s a give, not a take. When somebody, or something, wants to take from you, use you, control you, that’s obsession, not love.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“It was an owl, an ugly thing with eyes that bulged and a beak that hooked. I wasn’t sure who had ordered it but I was certain it would never find a buyer. “Bet I beat you out of this town,” I said, tapping its beak. A losing bet, I realized. It had wings. I didn’t even have a car.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“Hope is one of the most powerful feelings in all the universe. Hope is the essence of miracles.”
― April Aasheim, Daughters of Dark Root: The Complete Series

“Miss Sasha’s Magick Shoppe, Dark Root, Oregon February,”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“I’ll stay.” He put his hands in his”
― April Aasheim, The Shadows of Dark Root

“women celebrating the beauty and the majesty of life. And that, I realized, is essentially what witchcraft boiled down to––sisterhood and a reverence for the eternal circle.”
― April Aasheim, The Curse of Dark Root: Part One

“For secrets, once told, lose all their power. And love, lived in the light, erases all the darkness of the soul.”
― April Aasheim, The Magick of Dark Root

“Life isn’t about fairness. It’s about making the most of what ya have while yer here. Time gives everything its value. Remember that.”
― April Aasheim, The Magick of Dark Root

“Enlightenment comes only with sacrifice.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“she might be home right now, eating ramen noodles and reading naked in bed.”
― April Aasheim, The Good Girl's Guide to Being a Demon

“Music is a form of magic, I suppose,” Paul said. “It can take you back in time, change your mood...and some even claim, calm the savage beast.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“Time was not only short, I thought. It was also unfair. Time gave us things then took them away. A cruel thief. And there was absolutely nothing we could do about it.”
― April Aasheim, The Magick of Dark Root

“don’t come crying to me.” She looked at each of them in turn. “When the darkness comes. Remember you were warned.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“Shelves lined every wall of Mother’s Magick shop, displaying the hundreds of candles, masks, figurines, and baubles that made Miss Sasha’s the most popular attraction in all of Dark Root.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“This is your life. Quit waiting for it to start. It already has!”
― April Aasheim, Spells and Jinglebells

“I was filled with sadness, like I had just read the last page of a very long book. Only this time, there was no rereading that story whenever I wanted to go back.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root

“If there was no one around to relive memories with, did they even exist?”
― April Aasheim, The Good Girl's Guide to Being a Demon

“You never know what you have when you are young,” Merry continued. “All you can think about is that there is something bigger and greater out there in the world and you’re missing out.”
― April Aasheim, The Magick of Dark Root

“Did parenthood change you? Or did it merely enhance the parts needed to make it through the adventure”
― April Aasheim, The Curse of Dark Root: Part Two

“and Shane had begun a friendly rivalry of who could out-sauce who.”
― April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root