There exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson’s secular college] by the friends of William and Mary, which is not strong. The most restive is that of the priests of the different...

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.

I think you healed me.”He says it so simply, but my mind takes his words and scatters them like ashes. I feel like I’m waking from a coma and I have amnesia and everyone speaks...

Jesus, Jess, it would be nice if you stayed out of life-and-death scenarios for five minutes.

I don’t burn witches. I set them on fire,” Alistair whispered so low Sophia thought she had heard wrong.

I’m hoping you end up happily married to the man of your dreams and have a hoard of beautiful kids that’ll keep you on your toes by turning your neighbours into various types of pond-life.”...

The cool enchantment of evening has arrived after the prostrating heat of summer’s day and we lie quietly in anticipation of Your luminous appearance – Mysterious Selene, Whose Lunar Orb relieves the dark of night.

I took a step back, shaking my head, wishing I could place a gnarly black hex on him. My daddy taught me better than that.

But I find it necessary to repeat in this particular place that the division into classes, which is so salient a part of modern demonology, had, and has, little significance for primitive man or for...

You’ll burn my balls off.

When the power falls on me, it buzzes in the warm, dark spaces of my skull. It stings like nettles at the tips of my fingers. The power is a fever I have felt since...

Okay, you’re starting to talk board game. Let’s go home, babe. I’ll get you into bed.

Gossiping’s part of witchcraft,’ said Tiffany. ‘They’re checking to see if they’ve gone batty yet.

And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils and never draw another thing. Then it was embroidery with her,...

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...

I have fourteen black wives an’ one white, de chiefest one. I would sure enough shoo her away dis minute if you tek her place in my bed tonight, Mama Sam Moon.”Was sex all these...

He wanted to claim her, to possess her and be possessed, to sink into her soul until neither of them could tell their own being from the other.

I sought you out a-purpose in the hopes you would heal me from the effects of a spell. ‘Twas cast on me by a most wretched sorceress.

We live in the fairy forest of huge trees which is on the other side of the lake, said Farina.

Magic is all about words and believing. If you believe then anything is possible.

Witches, he thought. Always rhyming.

Why should I trust you?” Her eyes narrowed. “All I really know about you is that you’re not loyal to your girlfriends, you treat one-night stands like crap, and apparently you’ve made quite a name...

But in that moment, I didn’t want to be trusted. I wanted something far more primal. I stretched up on my tiptoes and leaned in. I closed my eyes as his scent overcame me. When...

But not for long,” said Nanny wistfully.

Diesel” – his name sounded sweet coming out of her mouth –“I want you, and I mean I really, really want you. Please. Let’s go back to my room.

A miracle came in the form of a doctor whom her mother knew. He put her in a roasting pan and placed her above a fire to keep her warm.

a dense wall of greenery bordered it, …an impenetrable barrier of oaks, evergreen shrubs, blackberry that somehow resisted the frost, and thorns. In the defense department, the witches would make Sleeping Beauty’s evil witch weep...

You have a surprisingly logical mind, for a human. And a female. And a witch.

My mother was a pathetic patchwork witch who had used magic so much to meddle in her own life that she had no integrity left and was nothing but a coil of hatreds consuming themselves...

No one will say it to my face, but it’s so obvious they think I actually murdered Gavin. As if I would actually want to hurt the guy I was in love with. Still, I...

I was born ready.’ Zoe to Fee.

Her eyes widened, convinced by the size of it that his shaft was fully erect. She blinked several times. No, she was wrong. The bulge moved, growing as she watched it.”Not that I mind ya...

I knew that coming from a family with an unhealthy social origins, things would be harder for me. Nonetheless, in my heart, hope never died. However, over time, I had learned that trying never died...

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Go ahead and try. I’ll attempt to loosen up. Her muscles tightened when I took her hand in mine. “Do you know any self-hypnosis?””I guess I’m tensing too much.” She took several deep calming breaths...

I think I finally understand the saying like a moth to a flame. I’m the moth. My heart flutters like the paper thin wings. And he is the flame, incendiary, scorching my soul.He inhales so...

Scarcely has night arrived to undeceive, unfurling her wings of crepe (wings drained even of the glimmer just now dying in the tree-tops); scarcely has the last glint still dancing on the burnished metal heights...

My first thought was that a tornado had somehow picked me up and carried me off, like in the Wizard of Oz. No old witches pedaled by, and I didn’t see any flying farm animals...

Listen, this rampage sounds like it’s going to make a real mess out of the city. I just got my studio rebuilt from the last fire, and I’m fairly certain my insurance doesn’t cover ‘acts...

Oh! Great Lady of Fascination! We arise in somnambulant awe and dance entranced as you glide slowly and softly through the Heavenly Dome and suffuse our presence with unfathomable desires for faerie worlds, where all...

In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren’t pretty or delightful, but they were magical, […] They called...

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

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I’m looking forward to the noose. Nothing better than a good hanging.

She had fire dancing in her eyes as she assaulted him with her serpent’s tongue. Tonight she was not his wife but his little sister.

Granny looked up at the zombie. He was – or, technically, had been – a tall, handsome man. He still was, only now he looked like someone who had walked through a room full of...

She had understood before she had ever dreamed of a city such as this, where every texture, every color, leapt out at you, where every fragrance was a drug, and the air itself was something...

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

Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We’re...

She tilted her head to glare up at him. “There you go with the ‘little witch’ thing again. What did I tell you about that?”Knox grinned unrepentantly. “What can I say? You have bewitched me.