Top 50 Deborah Blake Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Pain is mostly mind over matter: if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

— Deborah Blake

2. “A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.”

— Deborah Blake

3. “Life has a way of changing the path you are on when you least expect it.”

— Deborah Blake

4. “The impossible is just the possible you haven’t met yet.”

— Deborah Blake

5. “I had lost my connection with the universal energy and gained in its place precognition, visions, and a healing gift I could not control.”

— Deborah Blake

6. “You’re the Baba Yaga?” He gazed at her in disbelief. “But the Baba Yaga is an ugly old crone, and you’re, you’re... not!”

— Deborah Blake

7. “You say wicked like it’s a bad thing.”

— Deborah Blake

8. “Something tells me this isn’t going to end well for everyone involved. Someone may get turned into a frog yet.” And that was the good news.”

— Deborah Blake

9. “Stress and pain go down the drain. Leave me feeling good again.”

— Deborah Blake

10. “Mirror, mirror, shining bright, bring more clarity to my sight.”

— Deborah Blake

11. “Son, if you were any farther from fine you’d be in Nebraska.”

— Deborah Blake

12. “Not very smart,” Chudo-Yudo growled. “Stalking a Baba Yaga.” He showed a set of sharp white teeth. “Maybe he has a death wish. I could help with that You want me to eat him?”

— Deborah Blake

13. “Barbara felt lightheaded, almost dizzy with what she was about to say. But she said it anyway. “As you wish, Your Majesty. In that case, I am afraid I must resign my position as Baba Yaga. If I am forced to choose between the work I was destined to do and the man I was destined to love, I choose the man.”

— Deborah Blake

14. “I wash away negativity, opening myself up to light and love and all things good and beneficial.”

— Deborah Blake

15. “Maybe it is time to get over your daddy issues and just deal with it.”

— Deborah Blake

16. “Donata didn’t have a problem with being naked, per se. Witches didn’t have the same attitude toward the human body that Christians often had; nudity was accepted, and many Witches performed major rituals “skyclad.” But she sure as hell didn’t want to end up running through the building with her boobs flapping in the breeze if things went wrong.”

— Deborah Blake

17. “Couldn’t I just take up juggling fire over a pit of alligators?” Liam muttered. “I think it might be easier.”

— Deborah Blake

18. “Hmm,” she said. “‘Curiouser and curiouser,’ to quote Alice.”

— Deborah Blake

19. “You are like the beach at dawn when the fog comes in; each of those things is lovely on its own, but together, they can be magical.”

— Deborah Blake

20. “The main thing these books have in common is their intent to help you live your best possible magickal and mundane life. We all walk very different paths as Pagans and Witches, and what is right for one person won’t be right for the next. But my aim is to make it easier for you to find and follow the path that is right for you, integrating spirit and magick and heart into your everyday tasks as you walk it.”

— Deborah Blake

21. “Forgive yourself for being an imperfect human being. The goddess doesn’t expect perfection, although she does expect you to try and do better. Allow yourself to be happy. Live the life you want, and follow the path of your heart.”

— Deborah Blake

22. “I like the way the word Witch connects us back through all the generations of those who went before us who harnessed the power of the elements and magick to improve their lives and deepen their connection with the natural world.”

— Deborah Blake

23. “He came outta nowhere, and he was like Jackie Chan or something. I mean, I never saw anybody fight like that.”

— Deborah Blake

24. “It was hard to say which one was real – the face she showed the world during the day or the one she hid at night. Maybe neither.”

— Deborah Blake

25. “Cookies, a dragon dog, and a sword: what every well-equipped little girl takes on a journey.”

— Deborah Blake

26. “He strolled over to the refrigerator, opened the door with one paw, and delicately picked up a beer between his teeth. He waited until clothes had stopped arcing through the air and hand it to Barbara.”

— Deborah Blake

27. “Donata Santori looked down at the dead body lying at her feet and thought, ‘Damn, that can’t be a good sign.”

— Deborah Blake

28. “Legends had been written about less.”

— Deborah Blake

29. “I don’t know about you, but I’ve got plans for next Thursday. And I’m not in the mood to have them ruined by some apocalypse.”

— Deborah Blake

30. “The taxi driver dropped them off back at the Wabasha Street Caves and drove off clutching a huge tip and muttering under his breath about dog drool on his upholstery. In return, Chudo-Yudo muttered something about taxi drivers tasting good with ketchup.”

— Deborah Blake

31. “I cook this food with love and affection, for those I serve, I ask protection.”

— Deborah Blake

32. “Only one kiss. That was what he had intended. But Ciera’s lips were sweet like the juice of a pomegranate, and her skin under his hands felt like velvet. When she put her arms around him, he deepened the kiss, pulling the pins out of her hair until it cascaded over her shoulders. The tiny jingle of the bits of metal falling to the floor was almost lost in the moan she let out when he moved his lips down her neck, and then he was lost too.”

— Deborah Blake

33. “Perhaps you would be better off finding some way to embrace your new nature, instead of fighting it.”

— Deborah Blake

34. “Not that anyone short of God Almighty could have gotten Marcus Senior to rest and take it easy. It was like trying to make a shark sit up and beg for treats.”

— Deborah Blake

35. “You might even say their bark is as bad as their bite.”

— Deborah Blake

36. “A spiritual path is a living thing, and living things grow and change. Many people fear change when it involves their spiritual practice or theology for various reasons. However, growth involves change. If we do not grow, we risk begrudgingly plodding down a path that doesn’t serve our highest good. We must allow ourselves to expand, revise, and find our own spiritual truth and path. A healthy spiritual path is one that includes constant growth. Growth almost inherently includes change.”

— Deborah Blake

37. “In the middle of the night, she’d woken up with a memory of her grandmother’s voice ringing in her ears. “When it happens,” the older woman had said, holding on to Jenna’s hand with surprising strength for someone with one foot in the grave, “and it will, don’t stay in the cities. She can find you in the city. Too many eyes and whispering tongues that no one can see. Run to the woods, far away from everything and everyone you ever knew. Run, girl, run as far and as fast as you can.”

— Deborah Blake

38. “My brother, are you aware that you are presently taking the form of a rather large and distinctly emerald-hued bear? Not that it isn’t an improvement on your usual excessive good lucks, but...”

— Deborah Blake

39. “You wouldn’t believe the things that go missing in these labs. Remind me to tell you the story about the radioactive spider sometime.”

— Deborah Blake

40. “She narrowed her eyes at Ciera. “You know, for a smart lady, you’re kinda dumb about some real-life stuff, aren’t you?”

— Deborah Blake

41. “Her mother paused for a moment before hanging up the phone. “Watch your back, dear. Every family needs a black sheep. It would be an awful lot of trouble for us to come up with another one, should something happen to you.”

— Deborah Blake

42. “We all seek peace,” the abbot said. “The trick is finding the path that leads to it.”

— Deborah Blake

43. “Some things were only possible in fairy tales. And not the kind of fairy tales that Baba Yagas featured in; those tended not to have happy endings.”

— Deborah Blake

44. “Have you ever met a dragon that couldn’t talk?”

— Deborah Blake

45. “This is the strangest family vacation ever,” Liam said.”

— Deborah Blake

46. “If you ignored the benign ghost that haunted the place and the witch who lived inside, it was practically the picture of normalcy.”

— Deborah Blake

47. “Guilt can be a very destructive emotion.”

— Deborah Blake

48. “I also juggle,” he said in a grave tone, “and am quite adept with a deck of cards.”

— Deborah Blake

49. “Holy crap!” he said. “That’s a big dog.” “Yes,” said Baba. “But a small dragon.”

— Deborah Blake

50. “Death. Fire. Snow. Failure.”

— Deborah Blake