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A cigarette is the perfect type of perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? —OSCAR WILDE, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
“So much focus on the egg—it is life, it is food, it is answer to a hundred riddles—but look at its shell. Secrets are writ on its walls. Secrets lie in the entrails, in the dregs, at the edges.”
“The ways of removing faerie magic are many. A four-leaf clover, rowan berries, looking at yourself through a rock with a natural hole.
“Heed the warning of your shattered eggshell. You have sought chaos and now chaos seeks you.”
She was getting desperate enough to tear one of the heart-shaped leaves down the middle and find out whether this magic stuff was more symbolic or literal.
Me as a kid.
Why had she never met a bad idea she didn’t like?
Kaye nodded. “When you do magic, there are two stages: focus and surrender. Surrender is the part that so many do not understand. “To do magic, you must focus on what it is you want to do, then let go of the energy and trust it to do your bidding.
You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
The twilight holds as many truths as the dawn, perhaps more, since they are less easily perceived.
