The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

by Anne Rice

She was innately suspicious of language because she could “hear” with remarkable accuracy what lay behind it,

I know when people are lying. It’s not that I can read minds, it’s more subtle. It’s as if people are talking out loud in black-and-white words on a page, and I’m seeing what they say in colored pictures. I get their thoughts some times, little bits of information.

“A witch is a person who can attract and manipulate unseen forces,” said Aaron.

“The future is a fabric of interlacing possibilities,” he said. “Some of which gradually become probabilities, and

few of which become inevitabilities, but there are surprises sewn into the warp and the woof, which can tear it apart.”

“Talk of the future always brings unhappiness to humans. Their momentum is based upon the fact that they cannot see far.