Katherine Genet > Quotes

“And into a story that crosses time and lifetimes. I did what I could, and things changed despite my efforts. But my magic holds strong even yet, and I have the ability to cross the veil, cross the years, and reach out to those who must learn what I have to teach. And thus, I reach out across time to you.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“It is time to burn brightly, but not to the point of perishing in your own fire.”
― Katherine Genet, The Spirit Path

“But we will need courage to get through these times. To live what we know, to walk the ancient path, to stand up for those for whom we must be the voice.’ She paused. ‘To lead the world back again into that sacred balance. To lead by example, by inexhaustable integrity, by compassion, kindness, community.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“Now Krista did laugh. ‘Yeah, I remember that one. But she didn’t say anything else?’ She didn’t want to think about the Harry Potter books, or rather, their author.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“Quite a few of those she’d met who called themselves that only felt their own emotions – those they projected.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“Beacons, she thought. May she be one. ‘We light our fire,’ she said, her voice calm and clear on the early evening breeze, ‘to ease our anxiety about the coming darkness.”
― Katherine Genet, Follow The Wind

“Perhaps it is time that we stopped proclaiming that it’s our way or the highway, and actually acknowledge that there is beauty and worth in many other religions. That there is more than one way of knowing the world.”
― Katherine Genet, The Rising

“Everyone you meet has a spirit and a body and a deep inner life of which you know absolutely nothing.”
― Katherine Genet, The Singing

“and”
― Katherine Genet, The North Star

“The wind up here on the cliffs is strong and cold. I can feel my wolf press against my thigh, and I put down a hand to touch it to his thick fur, even though he is not really there. Or not there so as those down below getting the boat ready could see. Some might, I suppose, a glimpse or a glimmer, depending on how well their vision is. But the time of seeing is growing to a close. A veil is falling between us and those creatures and peoples of spirit.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“We have forgotten so much about death, you see,’ she said. ‘We’ve forgotten how important it is. How it is the doorway back to our souls, to wholeness, to more and continued life. We do not face our own deaths, and we do not take care of those around us who are ready to depart this world for the next.’ She shook her head. ‘We’ve forgotten too, how important life is, how valuable this experience can be for our souls, and how it is supposed to be joy-filled.”
― Katherine Genet, The Belonging

“Life isn’t a movie, you know. You don’t have to have some big, overriding purpose. You just have to do everything in a way that polishes your soul and shines on those around you.”
― Katherine Genet, Golden Heart

“Morghan stands between us, staring out over the darkening view, eyes fixed on the pinpricks of gold, and her chest heaves with emotion. A swift movement, and she is stepping forward, bringing out her arms, letting her light shine, a beacon to you all. And how she shines, bright and fierce with all the love for the world that lives inside her. She burns with it as we watch, brighter and fiercer. Bright and fierce.”
― Katherine Genet, The Spirit Path

“May the strength of your heart be with me wherever I go. May I be guided through the wilderness, protected through the storm. May I follow your path through the eternal forest. May healing and blessing be mine. May compassion be in my heart and in my hands.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“We know that the stronger our light shines, the more people will be able to see their own paths.”
― Katherine Genet, The Belonging

“Morghan relaxed into the music, into the world, into both worlds, the magic of the music making it effortless to draw the Otherworld around her so that she danced in her room at the same time that she danced in a clearing in the woods, the ground soft under her bare feet, the moonlight between the branches gleaming silver upon her skin, the trees gathered around, their roots touching underground, their branches overhead. She felt them there, in a circle around her, and she danced, feeling the music in her blood, in their sap, in her sap.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“Instead, she’d reached for the blue dress again, clean and dry from whatever magic Mrs. Palmer had worked on it the night before.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering

“The hare’s burrow was between the roots of a deep-voiced and venerable oak, and while the fox passed, it would nip back down into the warmth and safety of those roots, and the fox would continue on, deeper into the forest, towards its own bed, looking up for one glance at the rising sun and giving a furry, whiskery, sharp-toothed smile at the sun before settling to her bed.”
― Katherine Genet, The Gathering