“The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.”
“...memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”
“Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection - in memory - that, to our surprise, perhaps, comforts us.”
“"Magic is the first and last religion of the world. It has the power to make us whole, to open our eyes to the Dominions and return us to ourselves. Everything that isn't us is also ourselves. We're joined to everything that was, is and will be. From one end of the Imajica to another. From the tiniest mote dancing over this flame to the Godhead Itself.”
“The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return.”
“I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.”