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1 " We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless. "
― Anne Rice , Lasher (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #2)
2 " New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people. "
3 " I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice. "
4 " It's always been pride. The History of the Mayfair Witches was pride. But this came to me wrapped in the mysteries of science. We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless. And I knew this, I knew but I forgot. That was my mistake. "
5 " everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is. "
6 " One time Gifford had asked Mona: “What’s the difference between men and women?” Mona had said: “Men don’t know what can happen. They’re happy. But women know everything that can happen. They worry all the time. "
7 " His hands would soon be trembling and he would have indigestion, but he didn’t care. When you love coffee you abandon everything to that love. "
8 " Silence. All around him silence, wrapping up his spoken words and making them loud. Making them sharp in the stillness, like a movement, like a drop in temperature. Silence. There "
9 " The stars shone as brightly as if they were tumbling on the Final Day. "
10 " Words spoken to drunkards were truly words written in water. They vanished into the endless void in which the drunkard languished. "
11 " When you love coffee you abandon everything to that love. "
12 " ¿Acaso creías que podías bailar con el diablo y no pagar un precio por ello? "
13 " Stella, hush up. Be a witch, not a bitch, for the love of heaven. "
14 " I heard the first raindrops strike the porch roof beneath her. I felt them on my face: I saw the trees begin to move in their fury. And I heard the wind, wailing as if he were wailing, lashing the trees and crying in his grief as he had on the death of my mother, and on the death of her mother. Yes, it was a storm for the death of the witch, and I was the witch. And it was my death and my storm. "
15 " because in a way, everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is. "
16 " It is a terrible thing to realize that you depend so much upon another; that your entire sense of well-being is connected to that one—that you need him, love him, that he is the chief witness of your life. "
17 " Mine was the naïveté of the living; now it is the confusion and longing of the dead. Pray when I am finished with this tale, I will go on to something greater. Punishment even would have its shape, its purpose, some conviction of meaning. I cannot imagine eternal flames. But I can imagine eternal meaning. "
18 " Is that the proof, Almighty God, that you are not there, that your saints could be such petty demons? "
19 " Mona wasn’t innocent, except in the most serious sense of the word. That is, she didn’t think she was bad, and she didn’t mean to do bad. She was just sort of a … pagan "
20 " unseelie "
