Spirits In The Material World Quotes

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Philip Pullman
“What is the world of the spirits? It is nothing I know about. I don't know what spirit is."
"Spirit is what matter does.”
Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth

“Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
The subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure”
Sting

Eda J. Vor
“Like the feeling of a carbonated beverage slipping down the throat, the bubbles rushing and popping as they make their descent, the air around a departed spirit fizzles, dissipating from a thick electric presence to an ephemeral blink of light and color, like the aftereffect of too many flash cameras going off at once.”
Eda J. Vor, Lay Her Ghosts to Rest