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1 " 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
2 " Jagged needle, wicked liesFrom under the skin, pluck evil eyes.Destiny change from pain and coldNow that you pay in blood and soul. "
3 " Sacred signs always come when your soul calls out in pain or joy. "
4 " 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. "
5 " 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. "
6 " Creativity is at the root of excitement. "
7 " Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead. "
8 " 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. "
9 " Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream. "
10 " And he ate up all her vision, as he had done the first day she saw him so long ago. "
11 " Every spell is a journey. "
12 " 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. "
13 " Outside the store, beauty and mystery struggled to come together. Inside, they held hands, giggled to one another, and whispered secret messages. "
14 " 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. "
15 " 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. "
16 " Sometimes the presence of a happy moment, one that won't fade, is all the comfort we need. "
17 " She looked at his face and saw a monk and a detective, both beautiful and bizarre. "
18 " 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. "
19 " The evening pulsed with omens gentle to the eyes, and Valentina had a romantic crush on it all, like every good witch should. "
20 " The wind went mute and the trees in the forest stood still. It was time for the last tale. "