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I am nature. I am the mother of everything that has ever been or will ever be. I am all goddesses. And you know me, for I live inside you. I am in the part of you that feels magic when the wheat is harvested and cleansing wind separates
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The prologue is told from the perspective of Isis, Selene’s patron goddess. As Pharaoh of Egypt, Selene’s late mother, Cleopatra is considered the living embodiment of Isis. The figure of Isis represents many of themes in the story. She represents Selene’s Egyptian heritage and the power of her royal blood and female sexuality.
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“For every thing that lives is Holy.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
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225 books
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