Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

Well, child? Aren't you going to try to turn me into some kind of unspeakable creature?I don't think I shall bother, madam, seeing as you are making such a good job of it yourself!

A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and rotted thoughts that made her want to take our her brain and wash it.

It's witchcraft with all the crusts cut off, and real witchcraft is ALL crusts.

One of kindness and integrity. I know I fail constantly, but I’m working towards being a reliable and worthy contributor to the world.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

There is no separation in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the love and companionship which are mine by divine right.

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.