An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

Life is the night skyAll the dots of stars are happiness

He didn't know why, but seeing her made him feel like a man. She was something out of a dream - a dream in which he was not a spoiled young prince, but a king.

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

Even with a round table, some people always seem able to sit at the head of it.

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

Life is so simple, really. Think through what people want, watch what others fail to give them, and provide it. Then bill'em.