Megan Chance

“People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.”

“It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.”

“Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?”

“The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.”

“Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.”

“You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”

“Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.”

“Imagine you come upon a house painted brown. What color would you say the house was?""Why brown, of course.""But what if I came upon it from the other side, and found it to be white?""That would be absurd. Who would paint a house two colors?"He ignored my question. "You say it's brown, and I say it's white. Who's right?""We're both right.""Non," he said. "We're both wrong. The house isn't brown or white. It's both. You and I only see one side. But that doesn't mean the other side doesn't exist. To not see the whole is to not see the truth.”

“The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.”

“Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.”

“The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight?”

“In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.”

“Answers? Ha, he would say that. More like riddles, mazes, labyrinths. If there's some power trying to show me the way, it should give better directions.”