Luna > Luna's Quotes

“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”
― Adrienne Rich

“There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure. About light and shadow and the drift of continents. This is what has been called the "dialect of moss on stone - an interface of immensity and minute ness, of past and present, softness and hardness, stillness and vibrancy, yin and yan.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

“In indigenous ways of knowing, it is understood that each living being has a particular role to play. Every being is endowed with certain gifts, its own intelligence, its own spirit, its own story. Our stories tell us that the Creator gave these to us, as original instructions. The foundation of education is to discover that gift within us and learn to use it well.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

“It’s life, and ours, exist only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in reply.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

“We don’t die, my love, Evelyn had told her, though Lydia remembered her mother’s eyes were red and rimmed with tears. Not really. We change, yes. We become other things—the grass and flowers, trees and wind and stars. We rejoin the Great Mother, and our souls disperse into the universe, and become a part of a hundred million other living things, forever and ever.”
― Morgan Ryan, A Resistance of Witches

“Desire is a quest for the beautiful - whatever ''the beautiful'' might mean. Desire is the thing that makes us feel great about the world and therefore be great in it. It is the life force that spurs us on to do, to be, to think.”
― Bettany Hughes, Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire

“She is a vehicle not just for passion, but for philosophy.”
― Bettany Hughes, Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire

“This goddess is a candescent creature - and all that brings light will bring shade.”
― Bettany Hughes, Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“A ma vie de coer entier.
Mon debut et ma fin.
Se souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir.

My whole heart for my whole life.
With an alpha and an omega: my beginning and my end.
Remember the past, and that there is a future.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“All you have to do is be a good listener. Nobody really wants to keep secrets, not even the dead. People leave clues everywhere, and if you pay attention, you can piece them together.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“I admit it, given a choice, with a handful of exceptions, I tend to prefer the company of animals to the company of people. Animals are honest—there’s not a hint of pretense about them, they just unapologetically are who they are, and their capacity to love and be loved outshines ours by about a million.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“You don't have to miss out on the joy of learning something you're passionate about. If it's in you, it's out there waiting for you.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“Don’t cry because you think your best days are gone, smile because you had them in the first place.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“There's a lot more to being human than this finite, mundane, earthbound world we live in, that we're really part of a much greater cosmic whole that's all around us.”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

“It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic