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“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
― Will Shortz

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're sure. You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don't need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it's no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting.

In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don't get any damned tea.

I liked the Irish way better.”
― C.E. Murphy, Urban Shaman

“friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps”
― C.E. Murphy, Urban Shaman

“One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall”
― C.E. Murphy

“Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.”
― C.E. Murphy, Raven Calls

“You fought demons?" Jane said incredulously, "And I thought my life was weird."

"You turn into a giant panther. Your life is weird.”
― C.E. Murphy, Easy Pickings

“He can’t keep this up forever, Joanne. Stop fucking around." Did other people have little voices in their heads that said things like that?”
― C.E. Murphy, Winter Moon

“I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn’t believe me.”
― C.E. Murphy, Thunderbird Falls

“True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”
― mary renault, Fire from Heaven

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities”
― Scott Cunningham, Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

“I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

“Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices,
for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.
Therefore, let there be beauty and strength,
power and compassion, honor and humility,
mirth and reverence within you.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“Study the past if you would define the future.”
― Confucius

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung