At that instant the hag's noisy breathing stopped and with it all other sound. Her eyes opened, showing only whites - milky ovals infinitely eerie in the dark root-tangle of her sharp features and stringy hair. The gray tip of her tongue traveled like a large maggot around her lips.
~ Fritz Leiber
The pieces of the puzzle are visible, but not the grand design. Images flicker and dance like memories, hinting at events to come. They scatter the moment I reach for them only to re-form to taunt me. I who never truly possessed them, nor may I ever.They do tell me this: a time of great change approaches and it’s not enough to watch. We must act. We can’t count on others to do our work for us or all may be lost.- Oracle Lilian’s Diary, Winter of 3765
~ Mara Amberly
Whenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within.
~ Sereda Aleta Dailey
You can tell the future?''More like the future mugs me from time to time.' Rachel said'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future.
~ Rick Riordan
In his mind, Inman likened the swirling paths of vulture flight to the coffee grounds seeking pattern in his cup. Anyone could be oracle for the random ways things fall against each other. It was simple enough to tell fortunes if a man dedicated himself to the idea that the future will inevitably be worse than the past and that time is a path leading nowhere but a place of deep and persistent threat. The way Inman saw it, if a thing like Fredericksburg was to be used as a marker of current position, then many years hence, at the rate we're going, we'll be eating one another raw.
~ Charles Frazier
The people who demand that the oracle predict for them really want to know next year’s price on whalefur or something equally mundane. None of them wants an instant-by-instant prediction of his personal life.
~ Frank Herbert
I'm an oracle of the past. I can accurately predict up to 1 minute in the future, by thoroughly investigating the last 2 years of your life. Also, I look like an old database – flat and full of useless info.
~ Will Advise
Don’t you get it Cat? You’re the key. I knew it the day I laid eyes on you.
~ Amanda Bouchet
I don’t know why it’s not universally acknowledged that looking back is a terrible idea. It only makes going forward that much harder.
Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Oracle of Delphi:In my deep mystery I breatheyour fragrance swirling inyour odourless soulI return your mysteryrevealing your destiny deep inthe seed of your God Self
~ Ramon Ravenswood
Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
~ Anthon St. Maarten
The tears were there, waiting to make their escape. But she wouldn’t let them. Not this time. She couldn’t. Because if there was one thing she had to do now, it was be strong and brave. She just had to be strong and brave for one week. That was no time at all. And when the week was over and Milo had found his true mate, she would disappear.
~ Elaine White
...the whole 'know thyself' thing isn’t a journey to a fixed destination. Learning about myself changes me, forcing me to learn more. 'Know thyself' isn’t a goal; it’s a road.
~ Garon Whited
You are capable of doing everything you are afraid of doing, If only you would energize and motivate the Magical thing would absolutely happen to you!
Hades, Hera, and Hestia! Flynn curses, pointing up.What in the Underworld is that?A She-Dragon. Everyone turns to me, and as much as I love having four handsome men gape at me in stupefaction, right now, I could do without.
I want you. I need you. For as many hours as possible, I don't want to think about anything but you.
The Invisible World reveals to us this Truth within its silence.
~ Jacqueline Ripstein
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.
~ Luis Barragán
