Green Witch (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Heather: Add a description of this character.
• Green
• Troy Jones
• Tim
• Diamond

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• “A lie is not a story, it's simply a lie. Lies become bigger, and fatter, and meaner every time they're told. They eat air and inflate with each piece of gossip. They feel real, but when you touch them, they pop like a bubble. There's nothing inside.”

• “I wonder why it is that those who are the most wounded can often see what others cannot.”

• “This is how much love weighs . . . Nothing if you don't take it when it's offered. Everything if you accept what's given to you.”

• “'What you dream, you can grow.' Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong. Dreams are like air. They never leave you. It takes less than nothing to begin. Start with a pile of rocks. Moonstones, night stones, stones the color of snow. Start with heartache, thorns, vines. Let there be mud on your clothes, nails in your boots, ink on your skin, pain deep inside you. Let it grow and don't be afraid. Start with your own story”

  Green

• “Surely, I can never sit in judgment of the lost or the found.”

  Green

• “'Can you measure someone's love?' 'You think you can measure love? No scale would be strong enough...It would break to pieces under the weight.'”

  Green, Sky Witch

• “Someone once told me that love is an act of will. I was certain I'd heard wrong. I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought that it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.”

  Green

• “Stone, Sky, Rose, River, Earth.Let me know just what I'm worth.Tell me where my true love can be found.In the sky, the flowers, the river, or deep in the ground.”

  Green

• “Love is an act of will. You think it will just happen, but you have to make it so. Even when it's gone wrong. Wait and see. If love doesn't come to you, you have to go find it.”

  River Witch

• “We try to help her, but she tells us that some things must be shared and some must be done alone.”

  Green

• “Sometimes it takes as much courage to stay behind as it does to go.”

  River Witch

• “The more you feel, the stronger you are.”

  Father

• “I am the last person anyone would have expected to believe in the future, but I do. I am not hurrying toward it anymore. I am inside of it. A lifetime, after all, can be spent in a single afternoon. A world can exist in a kiss, a rose, a leaf, a heart.”

  Green

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• Because love is an act of will. You think it will just happen, but you have to make it so. Even when it’s gone wrong. Wait and see. If love doesn’t come to you, you have to go find it.

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• I wonder why it is that those who are the most wounded can often see what others cannot.

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• I didn’t understand that even when we can’t control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn’t returned. The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

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• I can’t help but wonder if it might be true that for every step you take, everyone you’ve ever loved walks with you.

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• In the end, every path you choose takes you closer to what you’ve been searching for all along.

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• What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don’t believe in it, it can never happen.

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Preceded by Green Angel.

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1. Alice Hoffman (Author)

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( H ) › Hoffman, Alice
• Books › Teens › Social Issues › Being a Teen
• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction

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