Katherine > Katherine's Quotes

“You have about as much chance of contacting the Universal Mind with a spell from a book as you do of reaching the White House by dialing random numbers into a phone.”
― Katherine Lampe, The Unquiet Grave

“Dealing with a territorial ghost held all the appeal of embarking on a course of court-ordered therapy with an inveterate wife-beater.”
― Katherine Lampe, The Unquiet Grave

“He'd built his career on the fallacy of clear boundaries between the material and the imagined, and the idea that the difference mattered.”
― Katherine Lampe, The Cruel Mother

“We may hop when the gods say 'frog,' but we still get to choose how fast and how high.”
― Katherine Lampe, The Unquiet Grave

“Grieving is messy and horrible, and it takes too long, and everyone tells you what you need.”
― Katherine Lampe, A Maid in Bedlam

“Sometimes bad things happen. Nothing caused them. They're nobody's fault and no one's to blame. They just happen.”
― Katherine Lampe, A Maid in Bedlam

“One thing I'd learned in my career as witch-about-town: the things people didn't want to talk about were just the things that needed to be discussed in detail.”
― Katherine Lampe, The Parting Glass

“You can win no battles by defending yourself.”
― Katherine Lampe, A Maid in Bedlam

“There's a thing in music that wants to change people. A thing that speaks to the soul. And there's a thing in people that listens, and changes when the music speaks.”
― Katherine Lampe, She Moved Through the Fair

“A man of power should embrace his Shadow, or if he cannot embrace it, at least accept it.”
― Katherine Lampe, The Parting Glass