“die tonight to be reborn again in the fire of Lugh”
“We feel safe on familiar ground, the tried and tested, the accepted, the so-called ‘normal’, but life is meant to be experienced and explored, to be a journey of self-discovery and adventure.”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“We become paralysed with fear and guilt, obsessed by ‘labels’ and become unable to question the reasoning behind our beliefs or indeed realise that it is acceptable to challenge them. Sometimes we simply need to give ourselves permission to break free from the confines of the tribe and find our own way.”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“It's like a...dance somehow, a minuet or a pavane. Something stately and pointless, with all its steps set out. With a beginning, and an end...
Sir John, sometimes I think life's all a mass of significance, all sorts of strands and threads woven like a tapestry or a brocade. So if you pulled one out or broke it the pattern would alter right back through the cloth. Then I think...it's all totally pointless, it would make just as much sense backwards as forwards, effects leading to causes and those to more effects...maybe that's what will happen, when we get to the end of Time.”
Source: Pavane
“A single flame may not burn very hot, but it has the power to grow into an unstoppable fire.”
Source: The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
“Das weiß ich nicht. Ich weiß nur eins: Sie brauchen einen anderen, nicht mich."
"Nein Haymitch, wir brauchen genauso einen wie dich."
"Nur mit mehr Glück?", sage ich.
"Mit mehr Glück, oder besserer Planung. Eine Armee im Rücken könnte auch nicht schaden.”
Source: Sunrise on the Reaping
“We’ll hop home, as we hares have done since time immemorial.”
Source: Ebba, the first Easter Hare (SPRING)
“Hm. New lives, being buried alive. Life already dead
before it can even start. Such a shame!”
Source: Ebba, the first Easter Hare (SPRING)
“Wherever she was, whichever city or state, whatever mood she was in, there was nothing like a book store to fill her up with happiness.”
Source: Fearless
“The sentinels held daggers, but all Cutthroats knew a blade wouldn’t stop the deep terrors from attacking. Weapons were false hope—fool’s gold.
The Drowned Sea would always take what it wanted.”
Source: Drowned Sea: A Dark Fantasy Adventure