But the world I wanted wasn’t the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.
“i want to keep our body above water. you want to make us a fish. — fish”
― nejma
― nejma
“Magick should be used for spiritual evolution and mystical insight; but I am here to tell you that practical magick does work.”
― The Sorcerer's Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick
― The Sorcerer's Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick
“do not choose the lesser life. do you hear me. do you hear me. choose the life that is. yours. the life that is seducing your lungs. that is dripping down your chin.”
― nejma
― nejma
“Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.”
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“I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.”
― Long After Midnight
― Long After Midnight
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