Salem Quotes

“When change cometh, she will bring peace at her back. She will not bend to your will; you must bend to hers.”
― Adriana Mather, How to Hang a Witch

“...if you come across someone sad and you do not try to make them smile, then you have disgraced your own humanity.”
― Adriana Mather, Haunting the Deep

“I kiss my darling then.
And my darling kisses his sweetheart.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“He bends over me, curls his sleek, cut body all around me, making himself my world. Flicking his eyes all over my face, he whispers, “Dark curls; Golden eyes.” He rubs our noses together. “Thirteen freckles; Flowers between her thighs.” He skims his lips over mine. “Sweet; So sweet; My heart; My sweetheart.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“Salem has become this... Mecca for Wiccans, but no witches died here. Aside from Tituba, no one practiced anything like witchcraft near here in colonial times. It was a bunch of bored Puritans who thought killing their neighbors at the behest of teenage girls was a fine, Christian form of entertainment and land acquisition.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.”
― Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692

“The sky grew orange and pink, a pale ghost of the full moon appeared above Salem, waiting to glow brilliant in the velvet black hiding just beyond the twilight.”
― Amber Newberry, One Night in Salem

“It was dark, now, the gossamer moon hanging among diamond stars in the soft black of the night.”
― Amber Newberry, One Night in Salem

“I grin and ask him something I've always wanted to ask. "Why do you always stare at my nose?"
He glances at it for a second before whispering, "Because you've got freckles on it. Thirteen, to be exact. And seven under your eyes.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“The Salem tragedy, which is about to begin in these pages, developed from a paradox. It is a paradox in whose grip we still live, and there is no prospect yet that we will discover its resolution. Simply, it was this: for good purposes, even high purposes, the people of Salem developed a theocracy, a combine of state and religious power whose function was to keep the community together, and to prevent any kind of disunity that might open it to destruction by material or ideological enemies. It was forged for a necessary purpose and accomplished that purpose. But all organization is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition, just as two objects cannot occupy the same space. Evidently the time came in New England when the repressions of order were heavier than seemed warranted by the dangers against which the order was organized. The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“He blamed television, movies, and books for his love of ghosts. It was a fascination that’s been with him since his youth. He always loved watching or reading anything that had to do with ghosts and haunted locations, especially historic sites like New Orleans, Salem, Tombstone, Gettysburg, and Old San Juan.”
― Jason Medina, A Ghost In New Orleans

“When change cometh, she will bring peace at her back. She will not bend to your will; you must bend to heres.”
― Adriana Mather, How to Hang a Witch

“..Abigail's singing while I painted. How we laughed so when no one was watching. And how finding a black-eyed Susan tucked into my business contracts reminded me of why I was doing that business in the first place. To really care for another is a reason to live.”
― Adriana Mather, How to Hang a Witch

“Mags said magic invited a certain amount of mess. That's why the honeysuckle grew three times as large around her house, and birds nested in her eaves nomatter the season.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“Scappare è facile, il difficile è restare”
― Jay Crownover, Rowdy

“Annie's message is timeless, her shining spirit and healing gift from the Spiritual Universe will capture your heart. She was born with birth defects in a time when special children and their mothers were put to death or banished. But have things changed really that much? Have they changed enough? "No!" Bullying, abuse, ridicule, and inequality thrives in the lives of women and children in our global modern society, just as surely as it did in the mid-1600s Colonial America. Based on factual research.”
― Deborah A.Bowman

“The laughter of children filled the crisp air while off-beat rhythms of knocks and door bells mixed with a chorus of "trick or treat" that sang out into the early evening.”
― Amber Newberry, One Night in Salem

“«Ίσως είναι καλύτερα έτσι», σχολίασε ανασηκώνοντας τους ώμους η Ρέιτσελ και έστρεψε το βλέμμα της ξανά προς τη θάλασσα. Ίσως μερικά πράγματα πονάνε λιγότερο αν τα αγνοούμε».”
― Χρύσα Βασιλείου, Κυνήγι μαγισσών

“Sarah turned around and there standing just a few feet from her was the legend himself, and he was far from disappointing.”
― C.A. Pruit, The Chapel

“We're all here. We're close to the truck, and we met Kenton, a fine citizen of Salem. We rescued Izzy and found our way through a very sad darkness, dangers that we knew from Izzy's Orion interpretation would be waiting for us. We're definitely on the right track.”
― Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me

“They aren't capable of doing this... look their thoughts, look how they run, look their faces... So far this tells everything about them,...
(Salem's Lot)”
― Deyth Banger

“Could life get any worse? She had read that great literature often comes out of great tragedy. If that was true, well, Shakespeare better move over.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Do the Funky Pickle

“The segregation of the girls would have served to localize the psychic infection, and the girls themselves, exposed to the wayward streak of poetry in Mather's composition, would almost certainly have found their fantasies deflected to the more normal preoccupations of adolescence. They would, in short, like a large proportion of the female members of his congregation at at given time, have fallen in love with him. Infatuation is not any guarantee against hysteria; quite the contrary. But in this case such a development might have diverted the antics of the girls to less malignant forms.”
― Marion L. Starkey, The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials

“«Ήξερα πως το κακό θα μεγάλωνε. Γιατί αν το ταΐσεις το κακό, θεριεύει. Και μόλις μυρίσει αίμα, γλυκαίνεται και θέλει κι άλλο».”
― Χρύσα Βασιλείου, Κυνήγι μαγισσών

“«Ο κόσμος πάντα διψούσε για αίμα. Πάντα έψαχνε για θύματα, για ανθρώπους να τους φορτώσει όσα δεν μπορούσε να καταλάβει με το στενό του το μυαλό. Ό,τι δεν ξέρει, το φοβάται. Ό,τι θεωρεί ξένο, το τρέμει. Και ποθεί να το καταστρέψει, να το ξεριζώσει συθέμελα».”
― Χρύσα Βασιλείου, Κυνήγι μαγισσών

“The Salem Witch Trials were about little else than bored girls letting their stories spin murderously out of control.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“É possível verificar que conforme a doença-vampirismo se espalha pela narrativa, ela progressivamente a contamina com um discurso viral, que acaba permeando toda a ação: as pessoas se sentem “doentes”, “um lixo”, mas “deve ser só gripe”; se Mike está doente, “alguns acham que ele pegou alguma doença do Danny Glick”; quando a mãe de Danny Glick começa a ter sonhos estranhos com o filho morto, seu marido nota como “ela estava pálida [...] os lábios haviam perdido a cor natural, e ela ganhara olheiras escuras”; se a Casa Marsten fede, o odor “lembrava lágrimas, vômito e trevas”; se a indústria dos trailers cresce, ela cresce “como uma epidemia”; se o medo de uma doença indizível se espalha, “fantasias paranoicas podem ser contagiosas”; se o vampiro logra atacar-me, “não encosta em mim, fui contaminado”.”
― Thiago Sardenberg, À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas

“Em Drácula, o vampiro, personificação da perversidade e do mal, era repelido pelo símbolo religioso em si, que se tornava uma arma que emanava poder; em ‘Salem, o símbolo somente tinha poder na medida em que a pessoa que o empunhasse houvesse nele depositado uma fé inabalável; já em Eu Sou a Lenda, por outro lado, não importava a fé de quem empunhava o símbolo, e sim, o entendimento do vampiro de seu lugar perante a ele.
Entende-se, portanto — embora a narrativa não aprofunde o tema —, que cruzes ou hóstias não teriam qualquer tipo de efeito sobre vampiros que haviam sido ateus, por exemplo. A internalização do ódio parecia residir no âmago do processo.”
― Thiago Sardenberg, À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas

“No one kills themselves because they are happy where they are.”
― Adriana Mather, How to Hang a Witch

“At the age of 54 I saw my first aurora in Salem, Oregon, USA. I knew something was up with the environmental radiation, as I had a headache when I woke up and unusual nerve pains in my left leg during the daytime. By the afternoon I was aware of the impending visual display that was forecast for the night sky in Oregon. Driving into the darkness of the unlit countryside revealed a visually spectacular display of green and purple glowing structures in the night sky. My sky camera recorded the display in the brightly lit city of Salem, which surprised me!”
― Steven Magee