Have you ever noticed' I said 'how everyone says they want to be different, but as soon as they meet someone who really is different, they ostracize … - Charles de Lint

Don't you ever watch TV?
Jilly shook her head. "What? And let the aliens monitor my brain waves?"

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of — heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

She shrugged. Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so that you can get a good look at it.