The Awakening

Do you have a favorite book? Why a favorite when there are so many, and I haven't read all of them?

You have a chance and a choice to be what you are. To build on all that came before, reach for what comes next. To fail, well, greatness rises from first failures.

Girl, take it from an old queen: be who you are and the hell with the rest.

It takes a bit of time, but why hurry through the day just to get to the next?

You start with earth and good intentions.

Nerves aren’t shameful. Not acting because of them is.

We are people of the land, we are artists and craftsmen, storytellers, but we are also a world of laws. Most are not unlike the laws you know. To take a life, to take what is not yours or not given freely, to force another to lie with you, to neglect a child or animal. All of these acts cause harm, and our first law is to cause no harm.

You have to look to find. You have to ask to have the answers. You have to awaken to become.

If the worlds were as we wish, the light would be only for joy and beauty, for healing and help. But the worlds are not what we wish. So we use the light to protect and shield, to fight the dark, even kill.

Friendship’s the bread of life, isn’t it now?

For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don’t hear the god they claim to worship. Or the god is a false and cruel one.

A place it was—or was meant to be—for prayer and good works and contemplation. But there are always some, aren’t there, who believe what they believe is the only. And will do whatever it takes to force that belief on all. For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don’t hear the god they claim to worship. Or the god is a false and cruel one.

the symbol of a sword crossed with a staff.

Know thyself. —Inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. —Aristotle

It’s all connected, you see, young Breen. The earth, the air, the water that falls from the sky, the sun that brings the light and warmth. And all that grows—the plants, the animals, the people. The bees that buzz, the birds that fly, all bound together.

a dragon no bigger than the palm of her hand. “Hello. You’re Lonrach, because that’s what you are. Brilliant.” She held out a hand, thrilled when he settled on her palm. “And you’re mine.

She saw its ruby-red wings tipped with gold like its—his, she knew, his—eyes. Not a bird, not at all, but a dragon no bigger than the palm of her hand. “Hello. You’re Lonrach, because that’s what you are. Brilliant.” She held out a hand, thrilled when he settled on her palm. “And you’re mine.

A stone, she realized, big as a baby’s fist, with dozens of smaller ones glinting on the gold links of the chain. And the clasp, clear through the water, a dragon in flight.

It’s pronounced ‘misnaw.’ It’s Irish for ‘courage’—I looked it up. And it’s your fault I have a tattoo on my wrist.

Era un lugar para la oración, las buenas obras y la contemplación, o eso se pretendía. Pero siempre hay alguien que cree que lo que cree es lo único que se puede creer, ¿verdad? Y que hará lo que haga falta para obligar a los demás a creerlo. Para mí, los que matan, queman y esclavizan en nombre de un dios, bueno, es porque no están escuchando al dios al que pretenden adorar. O porque su dios es falso y cruel.

Beau, you handsome bastard, it’s Sally. I’m better than I look and I look fabulous.

Science changes generation by generation—and more. Once in the realm of Earth the science said the world was flat—until they said it wasn’t. Science changes, mo stór. Magick is constant.

All the time wasted—” “Not wasted, no. Never wasted. Every day is a gift, every day you learn.

And if you don’t send it off, see what’s what, it’s already rejected, isn’t it?

To have the courage to do all of that,

the day become. A day, he knew, of change and choice, of hope and power.

Well, rules matter in a civilized world, don't they? But a low expectation doesn't risk failure or success, so what's the point of that? If you rock no boat, you never end up in the water to see where the waves might take you.