Megan Chance

“In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.”

“All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.”

“You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”

“Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.”

“The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.”

“It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.”

“Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.”

“Imagine you come upon a house painted brown. What color would you say the house was?""Why brown, of course.""But what if I came upon it from the other side, and found it to be white?""That would be absurd. Who would paint a house two colors?"He ignored my question. "You say it's brown, and I say it's white. Who's right?""We're both right.""Non," he said. "We're both wrong. The house isn't brown or white. It's both. You and I only see one side. But that doesn't mean the other side doesn't exist. To not see the whole is to not see the truth.”

“Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.”

“Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.”

“The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight?”

“People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.”

“Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?”

“The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.”

“The Bible was written by man to serve his own ends. Like society. Like the church. We use such things to control one another, but what right do we have to do so?”