Karol E.

“For the historian of religions, every manifestation of the sacred is important: every rite, every myth, every belief or divine figure reflects the experience of the sacred and hence implies the notions of being, of meaning, and of truth ... In short, the "sacred" is an element in the structure of consciousness and not a stage in the history of consciousness.”
― Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries

“She felt Proginoskes pulling away. “All I want to do,” he was murmuring to himself, “is go some place quiet and recite the names of the stars …” “Progo! You said we were Namers. I still don’t know: what is a Namer?” “I’ve told you. A Namer has to know who people are, and who they are meant to be. I don’t know why I should have been shocked at finding Echthroi on your planet.” “Why are they here?” “Echthroi are always about when there’s war. They start all war.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door

“most women have no conversation. And the worst thing is, it’s not because they’re incapable of it, it’s because they don’t bother trying.”
― Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim

“In exile, the road home lies through language, through dreams.”
― Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet