If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her.

Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of...

Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.

As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.

Like language, I think any who have not acquired spirituality by a certain age are doomed to be never fluent and you are likely to mimic the one that surrounds you.

Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash back on us.

Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve.

Anger is a powerful, transformative emotion, one that can light the fire under us that propels us ever higher. However, the woman wasting time at the grocery story, the man cutting us off, the website...

Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.

Every weekend, I fall in love again. By Sunday, the last thing I want to do is let her go, release her back into the cold water of life.

She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.

Sex was this primal connection like no magick she had ever known, even separated by a millimeter of latex. She knew that some combined the two and, while she could see how this would improve...

The trouble with psychics is that they convince you that you get this future no matter what you do. It is as though you can cheat the universe out of your experiences, that you need...

She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.

I hate those people who say you always find the one when you stop looking for her. It is the advice you least want to hear when what you think you need most is someone...

She was not a vegetarian and knew firsthand animals had to die for her delectation, but she never liked to think about it.

I mean every word of my divine chaos.

I do not imagine I will ever cling to her like she is the last handhold on an otherwise sheer cliff. I have wings. I am ever here in this moment because she is where...

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.

Maybe the world didn’t need witches and wolves, because the world itself did more to steal away the magic than fantasy ever could. It didn’t matter if one was disobedient, foolish, or unlucky, because the...

Man created god upon his thoughts to externalize, to give form to his belief to give a reason for what they could do. The gods stole away the energies, let man believe he was ruled...

Frequently, people confront us who seemed to be egging the world into calling them on their miserable actions so they can have the pleasure of angry vengeance or an excuse to attract attention. Our compassion...

She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.

She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had expressed sufficient disappointment in a girl she would never have to...

Shane met him owing to the storybooks she studied to discover what attributes made one princessly—this wasn’t technically a word, but she felt there should be equity in adjectives if not in life.

She is so free with herself and so certain of her path, something I now cynically believe only comes from not being aware of the infinite multitude of right paths.

She was not the sort of woman guys settle for. She was the one they lust after and strive for. She was the one who ruins other people’s relationships simply by existing, but she will...

I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full...

I reserve magick for necessities, a bit like the good china. It has a time and a place, but eating peanut butter sandwiches off it each morning chips and devalues it.

I cannot let my blood pressure rise because someone wishes to spread his or her bad day around, as if to dilute instead of multiply it.

Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between Person and Writer, like one of those color charts where...

As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her.

A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.

I was pure, before you defiled me, and don’t you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs....

We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar.

I wanted a life of adventure. I wanted to travel. I wanted to work my way up to being Somebody. I wanted to leave a mark on the Earth and be remembered.

When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.

Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.

He had carte blanche to eat whatever he wanted. No amount of broccoli and vitamin D kills ten lung tumors and I know not how many brain tumors. Have the tiramisu.

But aliens? There are TV shows about them. There are books and movies and more. The media indoctrinates you to them until people are so desensitized they don’t flinch at seeing aliens on TV or...

You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I’m not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you…

Well, what if you are wrong? What if the world doesn’t work the way you think? What would that mean?

Jasmine had endured enough parochial schooling before middle school to have a residual attachment to the beautiful parts of believing, the certainty of knowing one is loved by something beyond comprehension, but also a niggling...

As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction.

Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps—

Like the discovery of most things – love and religion especially – she maintained the child’s arrogant wonder than no one had understood it before her and, even if they had, they could not embrace...

She closes my door behind her and all the petty stresses of life reappear, eager to make up for lost time. I’ve developed a phobia of that door closing for the last time, of losing...

Her beauty was enough to get her into most any situation she desired and her tongue—sharp and venomous—was enough to get her out again.

You kill by consent, every time you let something… pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it.

I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living.