Luanne G. Smith > Quotes

“What the eye couldn’t see, the imagination filled in. We put names to the unexplained. Cast it as something to either fear or worship. And yet just because a thing can’t be seen doesn’t mean it isn’t real.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“The heart had a tendency to harden off after being forced to survive inside a life two sizes too small, deprived of the oxygen of dreams.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“Emboldened by the dark phase of the moon, the constellations twisted round in their infinite sky, slowly corkscrewing into the future, divining immutable futures for those still awake and gazing up.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“We put names to the unexplained. Cast it as something to either fear or worship. And yet just because a thing can’t be seen doesn’t mean it isn’t real.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“Mark my words – fashions change, causes change, but men’s ambitions never do.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“Intuition knows the truth when heard, but the sound can leave a terrible ringing in the ears.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“she debated the wisdom of not having waited longer for someone more suitably dressed to pass by on the road. Now she regretted how the stolen coat smelled”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“He wouldn’t be the first man to learn he’s wrong about something he’s certain about.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“Les pieds de Dieu. Do not tell my superior, but the smell of God’s feet is heaven to me.” The monk smiled. Threw his hands up in mock surrender. “Eight months ago I added milk, rennet, and a little salt together in a wooden vat. Pressed it, shaped it, and put it on the shelf to age. Today I have a delicious cheese to share with a guest. But the flavor, monsieur, that grows from something I did not add.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“The transformation, the struggle between light and dark, that is what propels life forward. That metamorphosis is one’s purpose for existing.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Glamourist

“She was Elena, disciple of the All Knowing and daughter of the Chanceaux Valley. And she was free.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“He likes being all superior and reminding me how much I don’t know.” “So you’re saying he’s a man?”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“Chaos and order rested on two sides of a sharp edge, but so did pain and pleasure. Harmony and discord. There was not one without the other. Always the dance of tension. One could choose which side to lean into if or when the blade tipped off-center.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“It made her dizzy to think of the spinning world and the multitude of destinies swirling together, fueling the future forward for everyone—individually and collectively.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“Love was a potion as potent as hemlock or wolfsbane”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell

“Neither she nor her sister could resist collecting the shiny trinkets that churned up with the river's tide. Rings, bottles, spoons, keys, combs, bones - there was always something new coughed up on the bank, as if the water grew perpetually ill on the taste of human detritus.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell

“Power craved power, leading some into dangerous alliances.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“Just because someone wrote something down in a book doesn’t make a lie a truth, though it may reveal the depth of the author’s ignorance.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“Mortal men. What flaw was it in their ape brains that convinced them their schemes were paramount to everyone else’s?”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“When the truth has been left in the dark too long, its cousins rumor and innuendo are allowed to grow into hideous shapes.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Song

“There’s a certain vulgarity in assigning worth to any individual life when each represents a piece in the mosaic of the whole.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Glamourist

“At night, all the cats are gray.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“Mark my words—fashions change, causes change, but men’s ambitions never do,”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“He imagined her being more like a placid dark lake that one had to give their soul over to for the privilege of knowing how deep her waters ran.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell

“No one’s path stops midlife. It must continue toward its end.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Conjurer

“They must do all kinds of experiments with botanicals down here,” she said, wafting the lavender under her nose and wondering what he wasn’t telling her.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Wolf's Eye

“As if she’d been given a potion that seeped into her veins, crept into her heart, and set off a poisonous time bomb that later shattered her dreams of love.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch

“the circulatory system when it will do all the work for them,”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Wolf's Eye

“A kiss absent of passion.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Wolf's Eye

“I suppose everyone leaves in the end, don’t they? But not you, sister. Promise we’ll always have each other.” Edwina squeezed her sister’s hand, assuring her she’d spoken a holy vow out loud. Forever and for always, they would have each other to rely on in this life, even if no one else would have them.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell