Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.