The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

by Josiah Bancroft

People who tell you not to be afraid of things are usually the first to get eaten by tigers. Fear helps us to prepare. I say, gather your supplies, arm yourself, and make the dark afraid of you.

Do not neglect to live your life. No cause, no matter how noble, will ever love you.

Whenever you raised a compass to refer to its wisdom, the needle would first swing and saw, seeming to dither with self-doubt and indecision. But then it settled into itself; it found its north; it resolved into fixed confidence.

While her home could absorb clutter with aplomb, contemporary decor would be entirely spoiled by the presence of a dropped scarf or abandoned saucer. Its beauty relied upon its emptiness, and so followed its soul.

he felt a terrible fullness. Warren longed for the relief of one good belch followed by the more generous embrace of death.

“There is nothing more admirable than a man who knows his limits—nothing sadder, either.”