Take Back the Magic Quotes

“as often happens when we start to feel better, I stopped praying.”
― Perdita Finn, Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World

“What’s the difference between a spell and a prayer? Absolutely nothing.”
― Perdita Finn, Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World

“Maybe that’s what everything depends upon, the courage to choose love over fear even in the face of the unknown.”
― Perdita Finn, Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World

“Death isn’t oblivion. It’s the great remembering. I pray to the dead to help me remember who I am while I’m still alive.”
― Perdita Finn, Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World

“I pray to the dead to help me remember who I am while I’m still alive.”
― Perdita Finn, Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World

“I pray for the mothers and fathers of incarnations I cannot remember. I pray for the children of past incarnations I do not remember. I pray for trees that have been cut down, species that have vanished, and mountains that have been leveled. I pray for the dead the land remembers but no one else does. I collect the dead and I hold them close.”
― Perdita Finn, Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World

“that a poem by W. H. Auden called “Stop All the Clocks” be read.”
― Perdita Finn, Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World

“We are all, whether we know it or not, sitting on the laps of the dead—and they are ready to amaze us with their tricks and wonders. They will show us the numbers on the cards before we turn them over. They will find the unexpected coins behind our ears and place them in our hands. Most of all, they will remind us that everything that goes away always comes back. We can’t explain magic. We can’t replicate it. And here’s the part you most certainly didn’t like when you were alive: we can’t control it. But we can cultivate a relationship with it—and invite it into our lives. We can step into the dark and summon its wonders to us.”
― Perdita Finn, Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World

“When the special effects of modern life fail us, when the grid at last goes down, we are likely to find ourselves lost in the darkness—but it is in the darkness that magic always happens.”
― Perdita Finn, Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World

“Holy Blood, Holy Grail about the secret history of Mary Magdalene in France.”
― Perdita Finn, Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World