"Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results."

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Source : Diane Duane (2003). “High Wizardry”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Diane Duane

#Promise Quotes #Want Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“I was on the central table and we were a very intimate group.”
“Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.”
“Reporting the consensus about climate change ... is not synonymous with good science reporting. The BBC is at an important point. It has been narrow minded about climate change for many years and they have become at the very least a clichÃ© and at worst lampooned as being predictable and biased by a public that doesn't believe them anymore.”
“Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.”
“Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul...”
“In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought.”

Source : "A Mania for Magnificence".
“I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.”
“It is a fact that each song an artist creates is unique and although fans tend to be loyal, ultimately the quality of the record will decide how it sells.”

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