The Conjurer Quotes

“Chaos and order rested on two sides of a sharp edge, but so did pain and pleasure. Harmony and discord. There was not one without the other. Always the dance of tension. One could choose which side to lean into if or when the blade tipped off-center.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“It made her dizzy to think of the spinning world and the multitude of destinies swirling together, fueling the future forward for everyone—individually and collectively.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“Just because someone wrote something down in a book doesn’t make a lie a truth, though it may reveal the depth of the author’s ignorance.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“No one’s path stops midlife. It must continue toward its end.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“She’d often thought about how their lives had intertwined with Yvette’s, the three like vine tendrils that stretch out and anchor themselves one to the other. An odd tangle, but one that had borne fruit in friendship.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“It is a peculiar sort of magic, though, this wishing. The way it manifests, swirling through the cosmos like the tail of a comet. Such a fierce desire to be realized. Lives colliding, seperating, and reforming again as each stage progresses. -- Pooling in the odd little eddies of commonality, tugging at filaments of swirling lights that are somehow interconnected. -- No care for the damage left in its wake while the recipientis granted their heart's desire.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“Each like a spring releasing its kinetic energy into the world, creating ripples of outcomes that might never have been otherwise.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“But it did not do to know too much about one’s unlived days. For events to unfold in the manner intended, it was usually best to face life’s twists and turns bereft of the knowledge of prophecy.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“The balance between order and chaos is held together by the tension between opposing forces. They serve as counterweights to each other, creating stability. But it’s a delicate line, as if always resting on a knife’s edge.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“Sidra did not know before that a heart could shrivel to the size of a raisin and die and yet leave the rest of the body and spirit to live for centuries.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“Always the wheel of fate kept turning, tipping the balance from pauper to prince back to indebted fool.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“Close the eyes, breathe deep the sorrow of loss, and remember the dream of what might have been.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer