But the world I wanted wasn’t the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.
“Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.”
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“I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.”
― Long After Midnight
― Long After Midnight
“every poem. here. is an unwrite. of all that has been written in me without. permission.”
― nejma
― nejma
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
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“Magick should be used for spiritual evolution and mystical insight; but I am here to tell you that practical magick does work.”
― The Sorcerer's Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick
― The Sorcerer's Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick
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