J.S. Watts > Quotes

“What you cannot lay to rest
Must therefore be laid aside”
― J.S. Watts, Cats and Other Myths

“These are amongst the last memories I shall relinquish to the page, though I am hanging onto them for now and for as long as I can. When they are gone, will there be anything left of me? Am I nothing but memory?”
― J.S. Watts, A Darker Moon

“The heart's optimism always
conquers reality”
― J.S. Watts, Songs of Steelyard Sue

“Holly girl, you are all too human, I can assure you. Prickly and awkward and human, because that's what witches are - human, that is, not necessarily the prickly and annoying bit. That's just you.”
― J.S. Watts, Witchlight

“I am the dreamer and not the dream”
― J.S. Watts, Cats and Other Myths

“the flicker of a memory
is all we can cling to
for our cherished ghosts”
― J.S. Watts, Years Ago You Coloured Me

“It was all about getting the power and keeping the power, not about how you coped with the power once it was yours for keeps.”
― J.S. Watts, Old Light

“The sea is old and getting older/ but without noticeably ageing - /water is always now”
― J.S. Watts, The Submerged Sea

“the shared simplicity/ of almost inaudible breath”
― J.S. Watts, Underword

“Plus, a very wise man once said to me, "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.”
― J.S. Watts, Elderlight