“Seeing the future sounds cool until you get this two-second flash and have no idea what it means, or if it will really happen.”
― Debora Geary, quote from A Modern Witch
“I wasn’t a witch until last Wednesday,” Lauren said. “I don’t know how to handle this.” “You’ve always been a witch, sweetheart. You just didn’t know.”
― Debora Geary, quote from A Modern Witch
“Friends who can accept you, even when the rules change like that, are gold.”
― Debora Geary, quote from A Modern Witch
“the best conversations wandered and twisted around. Sometimes you learn more that way than traveling in straight lines. ”
― Debora Geary, quote from A Modern Witch
“Nat gave her a lopsided grin. “Something like that.” “This is one weird February.”
― Debora Geary, quote from A Modern Witch
“She yanked open the door of the bagel shop and gratefully charged inside. Her mind reeled. Too many voices, too many feelings, too much. Lauren felt her stomach churning and clutched the door handle. She focused on the handle. That was the way out. The three steps to carry her back out the door were a marathon. When the door closed, she sank to her knees.”
― Debora Geary, quote from A Modern Witch
“ “I’m pretty sure if it weren’t for you, I’d have spent the rest of my life terrified of crowded places. I can’t thank you enough.”
― Debora Geary, quote from A Modern Witch
“In theory, a coven is just a group of witches working together.” Jamie looked pained. “In practice?” “In practice, it tends to be really heavy on ritual, really light on actual magic.”
― Debora Geary, quote from A Modern Witch
“It’s because I’m a witch that I can take these pictures,” Jennie said. “A good portrait photographer shows the outside of a person; a great one shows the inside. Being a mind witch makes it a little easier to see the inside, to know what the photograph needs to show.”
― Debora Geary, quote from A Modern Witch
“As instructed, she visualized the first moves in her mind, and then began. No words—her class was supposed to be reading the pictures in her mind. Knees bend, arms sweep up, breathe in. Stretch for the gorgeous blue sky and feel the warmth. Breathe out, arms sweep down and to heart center. Repeat.”
― Debora Geary, quote from A Modern Witch
“I have new batteries in the iPod, so she can have her own personal force field back. ”
― Debora Geary, quote from A Modern Witch
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“Jonah's breath came fast and shallow. I reached for his hand. He turned his face to me, his eyes wide with panic. Two frozen ponds. A boy screamed and pounded on the surface, trapped under the ice. Panicking. Trying to break through. But his screams faded, his fists flailed, and he slipped away into the dark. The boy was gone. Nothing left but the ice, clear and smooth enough to skate on.”
― Natalie Standiford, quote from How to Say Goodbye in Robot
“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., quote from Letter from the Birmingham Jail
“Asmodai, the demon of wrath and destruction. Master of all malevolent deities and governor of hellish legions, a monster with the three heads of a bull, a ram, and a man, the tail of a serpent, and the webbed feet of a goose. The monster sat astride an infernal dragon and held a lance bearing the war standard of hell. The three heads simultaneously breathed fire from their mouths while they surveyed the room. A television cameraman engulfed in flames ran screaming toward the window.”
― Yasutaka Tsutsui, quote from Paprika
“Delivered to oblivion...growing and flowering with incense and weeds to the sullen whine of nasty flies... I loved deserts, burnt out orchards, faded boutiques...I dragged myself down stinking alleyways... General, if there's an old cannon left, aim for the glass of splendid shops, into the living rooms...make the city eat its own dust.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, quote from A Season in Hell
“No doubt some kind of war on drugs was a political inevitability, just as that war’s failure to thwart human desire was inevitable as well. But we might have saved ourselves from the psychic costs of the drug war—the utter alienation of an underclass from its government, the wedding of that alienation to a ruthless economic engine, and finally, the birth of an outlaw philosophy as ugly and enraged as hate and despair can produce—if we had embraced the common sense that comes with the paper bag.”
― David Simon, quote from The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
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