All of Austin’s ambitions, his hopes and dreams for the future, drowned in the fear that he would never escape this forest.

Matthew Lowes, Old Growth

Consider also:

  1. “Magdelene was a big believer in luck – luck, coincidence, and just generally having life arrange itself in her favour. It made everything much less work, and she was a really big believer in that.”
  2. “If in mans’ heart of hearts there reigned this Self, come from eternity and but a pilgrim on its changeless way, could there be in his nature aught of folly or of evil, or any limit to his wisdom and his love?”
  3. “The following day, the unique advertisement is demolished; a new law is passed making the use of the words ‘right hand’ illegal; and a small emergency guillotine stands on every street-corner, ready to amputate all that threatens the state’s power.”
  4. “Because you have so augmented the evil your nature, because you have increased its Hatred and its Self-delusion, you have damaged yourself far more than all the violence of pain or death could hurt your victim, for there is no greater suffering than Ignorance, and it is the Ignorance of byegone lives which is the chiefest cause of whatsoever suffering we now endure.”
  5. “Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results–of an extremely temporary nature. The recoil upon those who practice it is terrific.”