Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.
Holly Black, Red Glove.
“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”
“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”
“The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.”
“This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”
“I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.”
“Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase."I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk."They're for you.""You want me to look homeless,...”
“Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.”
“Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.”
“Choose your love. Love your choice.”
“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be”
“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”
“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. ...”
“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”