"Contouring is like my favorite thing ever because you can get cheekbones even if you don't have them."

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual.”

Source : Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.85, Dion Fortune

“To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."”

Source : Peter Turchi (2011). “Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer”, p.11, Trinity University Press

“Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.”

“I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.”

“How shall we define occultism? The word is derived from the Latin occultus, hidden; so that it is the study of the hidden laws of nature. Since all the great laws of nature are in fact working in the invisible world far more than in the visible, occultism involves the acceptance of a much wider view of nature than that which is ordinarily taken. The occultist, then, is a man who studies all the laws of nature that he can reach or of which he can hear, and as a result of his study he identifies himself with these laws and devotes his life to the service of evolution.”

“That's a headache waiting to happen.”

“I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.”

“Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, ***** thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.”