...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

My tiny scary friend is coming

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.

Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do.

Many are called, few are chosen.

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young.

Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

Even genius is tied to profit.

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

I especially worry about the ways Canadians can be glib about our supposed difference from the US in our "acceptance" of "diversity."