The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2) QUOTES

2 " What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire. "

― Jeff Wheeler , The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2)

4 " It is a cruel fact, child. Wisdom comes after the moment when it is most needed. "

― Jeff Wheeler , The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2)

6 " There is no anger above the anger of a woman. For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocean. "

― Jeff Wheeler , The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2)

8 " He who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow. "

― Jeff Wheeler , The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2)

10 " While the Medium reveals itself in many forms and can come as a dramatic manifestation, it usually does not. Some mastons think they need to experience the full, raw power of the Medium before they are convinced of its possibilities. If we have unrealistic notions of how, when, or where the Medium reveals itself, we risk missing the tokens which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts while we are doing something else. These simple manifestations of the Medium can be equally convincing and powerful as the dramatic ones. Over time, we learn how this works. It is something each maston learns for himself. "

― Jeff Wheeler , The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2)

12 " In every era there comes a moment when the collective thoughts, whims, and motivations of a people become so self-absorbed, so malignant, so unheeding that nature itself revolts. Man scars the land such that it finally rebels against him. As thoughts can spread despair and death like seedlings of weeds strewn by the wind, so they eventually draw the Gardener to pluck them out. The vetches must be pulled, roots and all. When this happens, the Medium ceases to bless, and instead, it curses. Instead of healing, it spews poison. It happens swiftly and terribly. The ancients gave it a name, this culling process that blackens the world. They named it after a wasting disease that occurs in once-healthy groves of trees. They called it the Blight. "

― Jeff Wheeler , The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2)

14 " The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also, that which it fears. So often we bring into our lives that which would ruin us merely by thinking and fearing it. "

― Jeff Wheeler , The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2)

16 " A burden which is done well becomes light. "

― Jeff Wheeler , The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2)

18 " Imagine, if you will, that the sum of all human thoughts could be represented on a measuring scale. The thoughts of a powerful maston, one enabled by the Medium to his fullest potential, could each be represented by a gold coin on one side. Imagine then, that all of the evil, uncontrolled, vengeful thoughts have the weight of chaff and try to tip the scales. The world is a granary of ill-bred thoughts. There is enough to weigh down the world, to bury each one of us alive. Yet if we have enough of the good, it balances it out or keeps it firmly in the cause of right. Imagine, then, scales the size of a kingdom. How many gold coins are there compared with chaff? Enough—just enough. There is enough weight and enough strength to keep the scales balanced. But if you begin to remove the gold coins, one by one? Then every seed of evil matters. Every little seed begins to tip the scales. As long as the scales are balanced to the side of the mastons, the Medium blesses everyone—both the evil and the good. But if the balance is altered, if the weight of the wrong begins to exceed the weight of the right, it triggers the Blight to purge the chaff. It is a warning from the Medium. There are curses that follow. "

― Jeff Wheeler , The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2)

20 " A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. "

― Jeff Wheeler , The Blight of Muirwood (Legends of Muirwood, #2)