Shannon Fay > Quotes

“Power protects power.”
― Shannon Fay, Innate Magic

“I did think the priest was right about it having something to do with original sin, but I had a very different take on it. If Adam and Eve had not eaten from the tree and humanity were still living in paradise, there’d still be gay people. The difference would be that no one would get bent out of shape over the fact.”
― Shannon Fay, Innate Magic

“I snorted. “I am not courting trouble.” “You are so courting trouble!” Thomas parried. “You are sending trouble flowers! You are gingerly taking trouble’s hand! You are sitting in trouble’s living room, having tea with trouble’s parents!”
― Shannon Fay, Innate Magic

“age. Andrew had once shown us pictures of his mother as a young woman: young Andrea McDougal at the 1921 Ashes, a toothy smile framed by blonde curls, white skin bright even in the sepia photograph. Thomas had said that she had been, in her time, “a tall drink of water.” I wouldn’t admit this to Thom or anybody else but personally I thought Lady Fife was actually more striking now. She seemed more serious, no more toothy grins, her curls pinned back in a no-nonsense style, but she had a knowing quality that I couldn’t help but be drawn to. Lady Fife came to us, smiling. Her smile dropped when she saw the shattered statue. Whispers stated that Andrea McDougal was a scryer, a foreseer, a practitioner of the illegal art of divination. I was grimly pleased that she seemed surprised by this turn of events. Next to me the maid sucked in her breath through clenched teeth. I certainly didn’t envy her having Lady Fife as a mistress. I might have had to deal with her frosty acquaintance, but we were merely that—acquaintances. The laws of decorum demanded that we be polite and civil to each other regardless of our”
― Shannon Fay, Innate Magic

“He had never bothered to part his hair before, just letting it go whichever way it wished on his head, like he and his hair were two entities that grudgingly shared the same space and tried to have as little to do with each other as possible.”
― Shannon Fay, External Forces