The Gathering Quotes

“And into a story that crosses time and lifetimes. I did what I could, and things changed despite my efforts. But my magic holds strong even yet, and I have the ability to cross the veil, cross the years, and reach out to those who must learn what I have to teach. And thus, I reach out across time to you.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“But we will need courage to get through these times. To live what we know, to walk the ancient path, to stand up for those for whom we must be the voice.’ She paused. ‘To lead the world back again into that sacred balance. To lead by example, by inexhaustable integrity, by compassion, kindness, community.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“Morghan relaxed into the music, into the world, into both worlds, the magic of the music making it effortless to draw the Otherworld around her so that she danced in her room at the same time that she danced in a clearing in the woods, the ground soft under her bare feet, the moonlight between the branches gleaming silver upon her skin, the trees gathered around, their roots touching underground, their branches overhead. She felt them there, in a circle around her, and she danced, feeling the music in her blood, in their sap, in her sap.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“May the strength of your heart be with me wherever I go. May I be guided through the wilderness, protected through the storm. May I follow your path through the eternal forest. May healing and blessing be mine. May compassion be in my heart and in my hands.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“The wind up here on the cliffs is strong and cold. I can feel my wolf press against my thigh, and I put down a hand to touch it to his thick fur, even though he is not really there. Or not there so as those down below getting the boat ready could see. Some might, I suppose, a glimpse or a glimmer, depending on how well their vision is. But the time of seeing is growing to a close. A veil is falling between us and those creatures and peoples of spirit.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“Quite a few of those she’d met who called themselves that only felt their own emotions – those they projected.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“Instead, she’d reached for the blue dress again, clean and dry from whatever magic Mrs. Palmer had worked on it the night before.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“Now Krista did laugh. ‘Yeah, I remember that one. But she didn’t say anything else?’ She didn’t want to think about the Harry Potter books, or rather, their author.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“The hare’s burrow was between the roots of a deep-voiced and venerable oak, and while the fox passed, it would nip back down into the warmth and safety of those roots, and the fox would continue on, deeper into the forest, towards its own bed, looking up for one glance at the rising sun and giving a furry, whiskery, sharp-toothed smile at the sun before settling to her bed.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering