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#1

“I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.”
― Rumi

tags: mysticism, poetry, rumi

446 likes

#2

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
― Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart

771 likes

#3

“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
― Joseph Campbell, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research

tags: attributed, metaphor, mysticism, psychosis, schizophrenia

357 likes

#4

“I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books. I particularly mourn the lack of female villains — good, potent female villains. Not ill-tempered women who scheme about landing good men and better shoes (as if we had nothing more interesting to war over), not chilly WASP mothers (emotionally distant isn’t necessarily evil), not soapy vixens (merely bitchy doesn’t qualify either). I’m talking violent, wicked women. Scary women. Don’t tell me you don’t know some. The point is, women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves — to the point of almost parodic encouragement — we’ve left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.”
― Gillian Flynn

tags: bad-women, dark-side, female-villains, femme-fatale, gillian-flynn, quote, wicked-women

97 likes

#5

“Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: mysticism, personhood

100 likes

#6

“It’s the unknown that draws people.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: adventure, adventures, attraction, discovery, fascination, love-of-the-unknown, magnetism, mysteries, mysterious, mystery, people, unknown

128 likes

#7

“Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.”
― Damien Echols, Life After Death

tags: ambition, curiosity, god, mysterious

73 likes

#8

“It's all a series of serendipities
with no beginnings and no ends.
Such infinitesimal possibilities
Through which love transcends.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

tags: circles-within-circles, cycles, eternal, eternity, events, fortuitous, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortunate, immortality, lifem-infinitesimal, moments, mysterious, mystery, mystical, occasion, physical, serendipitous, serendipity, soul, spiritual, tao, trabsitions, turns, universe

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#9

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: causality, causation, cause-and-effect, chance, darwinism, inspirational, kalam-cosmological-argument, luck, naturalism, necessity, serendipity

1087 likes

#10

“There isn't any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact point of need, want or desire - it's sometimes a coincendence and most times fate, but whatever it is, I am certain it came to make me smile.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: authentic, connectedness, connection, destiny-quotes, faith, fate, fate-quotes, serendipity, serendipity-quotes, timing, trusting-god, truth, wise-words, words-of-wisdom

145 likes

#11

“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: humor, men, witchcraft, witches, women

3393 likes

#12

“I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”
― Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely

tags: body, cool, desire, erotic, erotica, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour, incest, love, lust, passion, relationships, romance, sex, sexuality, sister, taboo, truth, wisdom

951 likes

#13

“When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: africa, hopelessness, primitivism, taboo, tribalism

37 likes

#14

“Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.”
― L.J. Shen, Defy

tags: contemporary-romance, erotica, forbidden-love, new-adult, novella, romance, taboo, teacher-student

56 likes

#15

“We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, around-the-bend, ashamed, bananas, batty, bonkers, crackers, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, demented, democracy, democratic, deranged, ditzy, enough, ethic, ethical, ethics, funny, gaga, gonzo, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, in-private, in-public, insane, insanity, joke, jokes, loco, loony, loopy, lunatic, mad-as-a-hatter, mad-as-a-march-hare, majority, masturbate, masturbation, mental, minority, moral, morality, morals, non-compos-mentis, not-all-there, not-right-in-the-head, nutso, nutty, nutty-as-a-fruitcake, out-to-lunch, precept, precepts, private, public, quotations, quotes, raving-mad, round-the-bend, sane, sanity, satire, self-abuse, shame, shameful, societies, society, taboo, taboos, the-majority, the-minority, touched, unhinged, wacko, with-a-screw-loose

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#16

“I'm not a victim of sexual abuse. I'm not from a broken home. I've never killed anyone before, or watched anyone get killed, not in real life anyway. I guess I am just a little bit sick. I can't help if it turns me on, both physically and mentally. I guess I just like what I'm not meant to see, I guess I just like the taboo.”
― Stella Noir , Bone

tags: taboo

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#17

“Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, In the Night Garden

tags: miracles, princes, witches

601 likes

#18

“A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

tags: fear, witchcraft, witches

350 likes

#19

“Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is 'Don't do what you will, do what I say.' The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

tags: witches

136 likes

#20

“If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

tags: witches

107 likes

#21

“If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: danger, femme-fatale, passion

39 likes

#22

“The spider's web: She finds an innocuous corner in which to spin her web. The longer the web takes, the more fabulous its construction. She has no need to chase. She sits quietly, her patience a consummate force; she waits for her prey to come to her on their own, and then she ensnares them, injects them with venom, rendering them unable to escape. Spiders – so needed and yet so misunderstood.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: femme-fatale, patience, spider, spider-web, spiders

40 likes

#23

“I knew what she was, and it made no difference at all. She was hard, as ruthless as she was beautiful, as brittle as bone china.”
― Clifton Adams

tags: femme-fatale, noir

26 likes

#24

“Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant smile of a woman who knows what feeble creatures men can be. You couldn't learn to smile like that. It was something a woman either knew the minute she was born, or never knew at all. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")”
― Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

tags: femme-fatale

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#25

“There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant")”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies

tags: evil-women, femme-fatale

18 likes

#26

“She knew how much I needed her. And now she was teasing, playing games. I looked at her and watched her turn into a sex symbol in front of my eyes. She did not look sweet and virginal and lovely anymore. I looked at the very simple summer dress and saw breasts and belly and hips. I looked at her eyes and saw lust as naked as my own.”
― Lawrence Block, Grifter's Game

tags: femme-fatale, hard-boiled

14 likes

#27

“I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. Then she closed her eyes and lay back on the pillow. Her hair was falling over her shoulders in snaky curls. Her eye was all black, and her breasts weren’t drawn up and pointing up at me, but soft, and spread out in two big pink splotches. She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money’s worth that night.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

tags: femme-fatale, noir, sex

24 likes

#28

“There is no definitive answer as to why cannibalism provides us with such stimulation, although what is clear, and what remains extremely disturbing for me, is our increasing desensitization to violence and gore - a trait that does not bode well for the future.”
― Bill Schutt, Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

tags: biology, cannibalism, natural-history, science, taboo

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#29

“I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.”
― Clarice Lispector

tags: consciousness, forbidden, horror, life, mysticism, otherness, reality, ritual, sun, taboo, untouchable

3 likes

#30

“In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted by Christians as well as non-Christians, but because it is too wild and free for the timid.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: christianity, taboo

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