“Some truths don’t arrive to be believed. They arrive to be witnessed, and they change the shape of the one who sees them.”
LeAnna Taylor
The Blackthorne Inheritance, book 1
“Some doors only open when you stop knocking and start listening.”
Modern spiritual aphorism
“You’ve always had the Power, my Dear. You just had to learn it for yourself.”
Glenda the Good Witch
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The Wizard of Oz
“Witchcraft is seeing the world as alive, intelligent, and responsive.”
Starhawk
The Spiral Dance
“The only thing you need to get started down the path of magic is yourself. Your power is hidden within, waiting to be tapped into, and practicing magic will give you the ability to heal and change yourself and the world.”
Ambrosia Hawthorne
The Spell Book for New Witches: Essential Spells to Change Your Life
“We are all born with magic. It is simply a matter of remembering.”
Terry Pratchett
A Hat Full of Sky
“Being a witch means living in this world consciously, powerfully, and unapologetically.”
Gabriela Herstik
Inner Witch: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Craft
“Magic is not about power over others. It is about power within yourself.”
Unknown
modern witchcraft maxim
“The first time I called myself a witch was the most magical moment of my life.”
Margot Adler
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
“She was a woman who walked with the moon, and the stars knew her name.”
Fictional
commonly attributed to modern pagan poetry
“At the core, brujería and witchcraft are healing arts. As a bruja, I want to teach people the positive sides of witchcraft and brujería and how they can help you change your life.”
“Witches don’t see the world as it is. They see it as it could be, if you listen closely.”
Inspired by The Witcher
(paraphrased)
“Witchcraft is weird, wild, and hard to define.”
Sarah Lyons
Revolutionary Witchcraft: A Guide to Magical Activism
“Ritual is poetry in the language of acts.”
“Being a Witch gives you the power to heal yourself, change your life, change your world, and conjure your every dream.”
Juliet Diaz
Witchery: Embrace the Witch Within
“The power was not in the spell, but in the knowing.”
Fictional
contemporary fantasy tradition
“Witches exist throughout space and time. Witchcraft brings together the magical people throughout the world for the shared goals of justice, liberation, and celebration of the life force of the earth.”
Amanda Yates Garcia
Initiated
“To be a witch is to be fluent in change.”
Inspired by Octavia Butler’s themes
(original phrasing)
“Magic begins where certainty ends.”
Dion Fortune
(paraphrased for clarity and modern use)
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