Caeona Murdoch

“Look not so deeply into words and letters; for this Mystery hath been hidden by the Alchemists. Compose the sevenfold into a fourfold regimen; and when thou hast understood thou mayest make symbols; but by playing child's games with symbols thou shalt never understand.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Vision and the Voice: With Commentary and Other Papers

“For a while, my self-control and my power of reason quailed to uselessness.”
― Kaoru Kurimoto, The Battle of Nospherus

“They had spent whole summers collecting other ingredients from the forest— micah, chalk, the resin of a pine tree, lichen, some wax, and a drop of dew. After a long and belabored search, Penelope had even discovered some locust wings in the piles of dust beneath her father’s unkempt desk. She had been mixing strange scientific and alchemical potions with her father for as long as she could remember.”
― Sarah C. Patten, The Measure of Gold

“In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass