Love's Shadow Quotes

“Every spell is a journey.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“Most people live their lives laying prostrate before a false god, waiting for a cue to rise. There are no cues, only decisions. Shall I have dessert? Shall I have the best of the wine? Shall I love the person next to me? They can all be brought to your table. Rise, I say, rise and look within to the truth, to the light, and tell it your decision.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“Hidden by diaphanous clouds of mist and fog floating gracefully over vales of heather and flowing runnels, she began to dance.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“Jagged needle, wicked lies
From under the skin, pluck evil eyes.
Destiny change from pain and cold
Now that you pay in blood and soul.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“Only the ocean kept the same rhythm. Crashing in and slowly pulling back out, it never lied, never changed. It tried to teach them a life of romantic consistency.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“The wind went mute and the trees in the forest stood still. It was time for the last tale.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“The earth is a mosaic, and most fail to notice the gossamer tesserae floating down from the realm of the mind that form its images of beauty and horror.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“They kissed in the middle of the sidewalk, letting the crowds of people flow around them like water around an island.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“She felt the adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez strumming at her inner thighs like a guitar, and then slowly moving upwards until it wrapped around her heart in its denouement.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“Sometimes the presence of a happy moment, one that won't fade, is all the comfort we need.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“Sacred signs always come when your soul calls out in pain or joy.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“Outside the store, beauty and mystery struggled to come together. Inside, they held hands, giggled to one another, and whispered secret messages.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“Creativity is at the root of excitement.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“I inhale and a zephyr enters my body. The earth tilts its axis, changing my view of the heavens. Two clouds appear in the shape of trumpets. They part and rays of sunlight burst in. The sunlight speaks, 'Seek a new experience.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“She looked at his face and saw a monk and a detective, both beautiful and bizarre.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“On any given night the stars are endless losses or endless gains. One for the love you experience and one for the love you lose. One for the unfulfilled wish and one for the wish yet to come.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“She prayed to the gods of love and the gods of destruction, for they are one and the same.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“There is a point where the universe can deliver you from the verge of regret. I know your love for me will take you there.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“You are exposed ma chère.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“The evening pulsed with omens gentle to the eyes, and Valentina had a romantic crush on it all, like every good witch should.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“And he ate up all her vision, as he had done the first day she saw him so long ago.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“Perhaps she was happiest when she was out of control. She looked at the fates and said three little words, not one regret.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“You see, Dr. Sherrington,' the devil said, 'we are more alike than you think.' He got up again on all fours looking in the direction of the voice. It was time to face the devil.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“As she slid into her fifties, with grace I might add, she learned the art of hatred, pulling on the pain from a broken heart. She kept this pain alive, growing on the outskirts of her soul, like a copse of trees that constantly needed pruning.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths