Yafeng Xia Quotes & Sayings

I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness ... Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman. — Alan Moore

If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can't just try to see the other side of an argument. That's not enough. You have to go all the way. Over — Chuck Klosterman

Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful. Claire — Karin Slaughter

I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way. — Helmut Kohl

A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it. — Edward McKendree Bounds

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey. — Ben Jonson

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws. — Terry Pratchett

The caliber of actors I'm getting to work with and learn from on a daily basis is phenomenal for me as a developing actor. — Graham Phillips

Thomas," Inez interrupted with exasperation. "I'm trying to tell you I love you." "You do?" he asked, a smile spreading halfway across his face. "But then why did you tell Terri that you wanted to delay the turn?" "It wasn't you. It was because of the pain involved," she said with a grimace and then admitted, "I don't like pain, Thomas. I mean I'm practically phobic about it. My whole life, I've avoided any situation that might involve pain. My dentist even has to gas me to fill a cavity." Inez shrugged unhappily. "I probably would have delayed and put it off as long as I possibly could if you hadn't had to change me to save my life. In truth, Blondie probably did us both a favor by precipitating the events that forced you to turn me. — Lynsay Sands

You really fucked this up, Einstein."
"You hate her."
"She grew on me. Kind of like moss. — Katie McGarry

The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin. — Jeanette Winterson

are all contingent. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Women, I thought: if they fell over a cliff and thought there was company waiting at the bottom, they'd comb their hair on the way down. — Alistair MacLean