“It is a cruel fact, child. Wisdom comes after the moment when it is most needed.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“There is no anger above the anger of a woman. For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocean.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“The greatest power over a man is his desire to please a particular woman.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“The hunter is patient. The prey is careless.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“He who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“While the Medium reveals itself in many forms and can come as a dramatic manifestation, it usually does not. Some mastons think they need to experience the full, raw power of the Medium before they are convinced of its possibilities. If we have unrealistic notions of how, when, or where the Medium reveals itself, we risk missing the tokens which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts while we are doing something else. These simple manifestations of the Medium can be equally convincing and powerful as the dramatic ones. Over time, we learn how this works. It is something each maston learns for himself.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“Where weeds are sown, weeds grow.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“In every era there comes a moment when the collective thoughts, whims, and motivations of a people become so self-absorbed, so malignant, so unheeding that nature itself revolts. Man scars the land such that it finally rebels against him. As thoughts can spread despair and death like seedlings of weeds strewn by the wind, so they eventually draw the Gardener to pluck them out. The vetches must be pulled, roots and all. When this happens, the Medium ceases to bless, and instead, it curses. Instead of healing, it spews poison. It happens swiftly and terribly. The ancients gave it a name, this culling process that blackens the world. They named it after a wasting disease that occurs in once-healthy groves of trees. They called it the Blight.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to ourselves.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things, which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Many tyrants have sat on a throne, and those whom no man would think on, have worn crowns.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also, that which it fears. So often we bring into our lives that which would ruin us merely by thinking and fearing it.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“A burden which is done well becomes light.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“Imagine, if you will, that the sum of all human thoughts could be represented on a measuring scale. The thoughts of a powerful maston, one enabled by the Medium to his fullest potential, could each be represented by a gold coin on one side. Imagine then, that all of the evil, uncontrolled, vengeful thoughts have the weight of chaff and try to tip the scales. The world is a granary of ill-bred thoughts. There is enough to weigh down the world, to bury each one of us alive. Yet if we have enough of the good, it balances it out or keeps it firmly in the cause of right. Imagine, then, scales the size of a kingdom. How many gold coins are there compared with chaff? Enough—just enough. There is enough weight and enough strength to keep the scales balanced. But if you begin to remove the gold coins, one by one? Then every seed of evil matters. Every little seed begins to tip the scales. As long as the scales are balanced to the side of the mastons, the Medium blesses everyone—both the evil and the good. But if the balance is altered, if the weight of the wrong begins to exceed the weight of the right, it triggers the Blight to purge the chaff. It is a warning from the Medium. There are curses that follow.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“The worse a person is, the less he feels it.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“Just as the lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean, so is it with our minds.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“Like fragile ice, anger passes away in time. Therefore, the greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Sometimes silence, at the proper season, is wisdom and better than any speech.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. —Gideon Penman of Muirwood Abbey”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“rushing in from the north. That usually meant a sea storm. The Pilgrim Inn bustled with stain-splotched travelers and weary helpers. She looked for any indication that something was wrong. Siler was talking to some guests, but waved to her. The children were playing at the main table with the guests, one of which was an older woman who fawned over them. Lia approached Siler. “Is anything wrong?” she asked him.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Sometimes silence, at the proper season, is wisdom and better than any speech. —”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. —”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“Just as the lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean, so is it with our minds. All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil. A soft word of praise benignly intended can wreak havoc on one whose ears itch to hear it. So often, we are pulled and strung along by our feelings, led to this mischief and that because we crave a fleeting emotion. Our simmering anger needs but a nudge to flame up and scald everyone around us. Yet when our thoughts are pure, we become a light by which others learn to read. —”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.” The”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
“I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Sometimes silence, at the proper season, is wisdom and better than any speech. —Gideon Penman of Muirwood Abbey”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Blight of Muirwood
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“There seemed something rather devotional about her pose, the stillness, so that I thought at last, She is praying!, and made to draw my eyes away in sudden shame. But then she stirred. Her hands opened, she raised them to her cheek, and I caught a flash of colour against the pink of her work-roughened palms. She had a flower there, between her fingers—a violet, with a drooping stem. As I watched, she put the flower to her lips, and breathed upon it, and the purple of the petals gave a quiver and seemed to glow . . .”
― Sarah Waters, quote from Affinity
“Puoi portarmi ovunque. Oppure da nessuna parte. Ma in qualunque posto sarai su questa terra, è lì che vorrei essere anche io.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“I don’t have a boyfriend.”
“Good thing. I’d hate to have to hop a plane at this time of night just to kick his ass for messing around with my girl.”
I smile and chew on my bottom lip. His forwardness is kind of cute. “I’m not your girl, Noel.”
“Not yet, but soon,” he says.”
― Michelle A. Valentine, quote from Rock the Heart
“Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.”
― Stephen King, quote from Joyland
“When will the Home Office realize that when judges retire, not only are they sent home for the rest of their lives, but the only people they have left to judge are their innocent wives.'
'So what are you recommending?'asked Alex as they walked into the drawing room.
'That judges should be shot on their seventieth birthday, and their wives granted a royal pardon and given their pensions by a grateful nation.'
'I may have come up with a more acceptable solution,' suggested Alex.
'Like what? Making it legal to assist judges' wives to commit suicide?'
'Something a little less drastic,' said Alex.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from A Prisoner of Birth
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