“I've been called many things in my time, but never a conduit of divinity- Cedric MacKinnon, My Fearful Symmetry”

“I thought I was growing wings—it was a cocoon.I thought, now is the time to stepinto the fire—it was deep water.Eschatology is a word I learnedas a child: the study of Last Things;facing my mirror—no longer young,the news—always of death,the dogs—rising from sleep and clamoringand howling, howling....("Seeing For a Moment")”

“I have traveled outside the mountains, but never lived apart from them. I always feared mountains would be as jealous, as unforgiving, as any spurned lover. Leave them and they may never take you back. Besides, I never felt a need to go. There is enough to study in these hills to last a lifetime.”

“Go ahead and laugh! If you don't laugh, you going to cry ~ so laugh!”

“It's fear that makes an act courageous.”

“I've never met a bug that hasn't made me jump.”

“I wondered if somehow, without my knowing it, I had been cast in a Lifetime channel movie.”