Gwendolyn Womack > Quotes

“The brain is its own galaxy, with more cells than stars in the Milky Way. The most powerful organ in the body, it rivals any supercomputer, processing 90,000 to 150,000 thoughts a day through billions of neurons and trillions of synaptic connections. Now that we have found a pathway to retrieving memories that before were inaccessible, we are perfecting its function too quickly.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Memory Painter

“He painted until the hours towered above him, pressing down upon his body and begging him to stop.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Memory Painter

“Always remember the answers come not from the rock, the teacup, the shell, or the cards. The answers come from you.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Fortune Teller

“A hermit by nature, she preferred curling up with a good book or working on a new puzzle whenever she gave herself downtime from work”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Memory Painter

“did a soul’s path adhere to a pattern, like the connecting lines on a mandala?”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Memory Painter

“This “holy man,” a peasant from Siberia, had somehow gained entry to the highest levels of St. Petersburg society by preaching that people should sin as much as possible to find their path to God. He fully embodied his mantra by drinking to excess and hosting orgies at his home.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Fortune Teller

“Life and its infinite expressions had to go on. If every atom could sing”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Last Labyrinth

“Toccata meant “to touch” and fugue allowed the pianist to embellish notes within the progression in an open invitation from Bach to join him in the song.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Last Labyrinth

“Zubaidah wore so much jewelry that two servants had to help her stand.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Fortune Teller

“Duende was the Spanish word for the mysterious power behind a work of art to deeply move one’s heart.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Last Labyrinth

“Lady Fauna’s laugh was quite high-pitched and her face had a pinched look”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Last Labyrinth

“But so far she’d only dated a tuba player for a short while but called it quits because he kissed her like she was the horn.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Last Labyrinth

“Divination is a mirror, reflecting what is here and here,” Kezia would tell her, pointing to Nettie’s heart and head. Nettie nodded like a solemn student.

“Whatever the cards show you, always trust the words that well inside you. The truth is waiting to be heard. Never doubt it.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Fortune Teller

“This is your card. The High Priestess.” Doreen placed it on top. “She symbolizes our intuition. She guards the Tree of Life at the gate of the conscious mind, wearing the blue robe of knowledge and the crown of Isis.” Her finger tapped the image. “Whatever challenges are ahead, never forget you have an inner strength”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Fortune Teller

“Agape was the ancient Greek word to love someone through all obstacles”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Last Labyrinth

“Squeals of laughter erupted from the women in the parlor as Rasputin squeezed their breasts. “I can measure your spirit this way,” he explained.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Fortune Teller

“— A vida sempre devolve o que tira de nós.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Memory Painter

“She didn’t know St. Paul’s Chapel was the oldest church in Manhattan and had been built on an ancient Ley Line. She didn’t know yet what a Ley Line was.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Last Labyrinth

“To divine is to imagine the world rightly, to see past the illusion that we are separate from the entire fabric of reality.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Fortune Teller

“According to Plato, Socrates believed all knowledge came from a divine state, but humans had forgotten it. Most lived in a cave of ignorance, but one could become enlightened by climbing out of the darkness and understanding the divide between the spiritual and material planes.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Memory Painter

“Hindsight offers many treasures, clarity being one.”
― Gwendolyn Womack

“On any one street people could pray to a variety of deities, Zeus and Jupiter, Isis and Osiris, the Jewish god Yahweh, the Persian god Mithra, or Serapis, a god the Ptolemies introduced to bind themselves to the Egyptians and their mysticism.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Fortune Teller

“Her playing felt like an arm was reaching inside his chest and squeezing his heart.”
― Gwendolyn Womack, The Last Labyrinth