Johnson Levitz

“The natives have a way of putting it themselves: “the real world behind this one,” they call it, suggesting that what we see and understand of the surface world is but a façade, which they are capable of navigating beyond. And so it is that in living among them, such things as shape-shifters, talking bears, men turning into birds and flying, all seem somehow plausible.”
― Jim Fergus, The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill

“   In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“To the very end Hoppie had been thinking. I had learned the most important rule in winning. . . keep thinking.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One: The iconic novel from the multimillion-copy bestselling author

“Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.”
― Aldo Leopold