

“See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God's sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they'd allowed to wither in themselves.”
― Boy's Life
― Boy's Life

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.”
― Book of Orion - Liber Aeternus
― Book of Orion - Liber Aeternus
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