Gillian St. Kevern > Quotes

“The first part of a spell is to start with something true. Then you add the made-up bit, the thing you want to happen— the story. The more clearly you can envision it, the more detail it gathers, the more people that know it, the bigger its influence goes. And if the person speaking it has the gift for it, then the story comes true.”
― Gillian St. Kevern, Deep Magic

“A belief in God does not preclude a belief in other things,” he said. “In fact, I find it encourages it. If you believe in God you must accept the devil. Accept the devil, and you accept there are things not of God that wield powers undreamt of by the common man, and exist outside of man’s knowing.”
― Gillian St. Kevern, Deep Magic

“belief in God does not preclude a belief in other things,” he said. “In fact, I find it encourages it. If you believe in God you must accept the devil. Accept the devil, and you accept there are things not of God that wield powers undreamt of by the common man, and exist outside of man’s knowing.”
― Gillian St. Kevern, Deep Magic

“I have been known to fall asleep in church services, if I remember to attend at all. Left to my own devices, I can sleep till the afternoon and am overly fond of novels.”
― Gillian St. Kevern, The Secretary and the Ghost

“I had thought of being a hermit, but she told me I was over-qualified and suggested instead a profession where I might enjoy the sound of my own voice.”
― Gillian St. Kevern, Deep Magic

“Murder?” Impossible. Acton was a lord and Humber would never do anything so lower-class as allow himself to be murdered! The very idea was anathema to a butler.”
― Gillian St. Kevern, The Well-Dressed Werewolf

“Stephen turned the pages of a novel. It was written with a view to improving young women. Unfortunately its author was so clumsily didactic that anyone reading the book would have felt it no less than her solemn duty to misbehave at once.”
― Gillian St. Kevern, The Mystery of Brackenwell Hall