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November 22 - December 12, 2024
“Do you really think you’re telling me something I haven’t thought about?” “My apologies, you’re right. Like teaching your grandmother to suck eggs.” “What?” He turned and was half-laughing. I shrugged. “Just an old saying. It means that I’m lecturing someone who taught me what I’m lecturing about.”
“I am no one’s fool, and that means I am no one’s sweetheart.”
you wouldn’t know an uncomplicated fuck if it bit you on the ass.”
You always go into everything like it’s life or death. Only life and death are life and death.”
Words have power. But even thinking about them is sometimes enough to make the air in a room heavy.
Arrogance or stupidity, sometimes there’s not much difference between the two.
Most systems of magic or mysticism have rules of conduct, things you do and things you do not. You break the rules at your peril. The wiccans call it the three-fold law: what you do to others comes back to you threefold. Buddhists call it karma. Christians call it answering for your sins. I call it what goes around comes around. It really does, you know.