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“Runes, runes, runes... Runes. An inverted Algiz rune. The caption next to it said “Chernobog.�� The Black God. Right. Of course, it wouldn’t be Chernobog, God of Morning Dew on the Rose Petals, but a woman could always hope.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays

“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? ��”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“James eyed Matthew. “Thomas,�� he said, in a low voice. “Maybe a healing rune?��
Thomas nodded and approached Matthew cautiously, as one might approach a stray cat on the street. Some time ago James had discovered that healing runes sobered Matthew up: not entirely, but enough.
“Push up your sleeve, then, there’s a good fellow,�� Thomas said, seating himself on the arm of Matthew’s chair. “Let’s wake you up and James can tell us whatever mad thing he has planned.��
“It seems somehow blasphemous to use Marks to rid oneself of the effects of alcohol,�� Matthew added, as Thomas put his stele away. The Mark in question gleamed, new-made, on Matthew’s wrist. He looked already more clear-eyed, and less as if he were about to fall asleep or be sick.
“I’ve seen you use your stele to part your hair,�� said James dryly, as he began to examine the window locks.
“The Angel gave me this hair,�� replied Matthew. “It’s one of the Shadowhunters�� gifts. Like the Mortal Sword.��
“Now that is blasphemy,�� said Thomas.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“You couldn’t make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn’t assuage grief with it either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“An algiz stone I hastily borrowed without asking from Hearthstone’s rune bag. (If he didn’t want me to take it, then why did he leave his room unlocked?)”
― Rick Riordan, Mission Road

“Where Ostara is the time of light’s arrival, Beltane is what grows from its warmth.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div., Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick

“This is the starting point, Daisy had said. It's the symbol for self. Its essence is water. Your relationship with yourself is primary, like water you must be willing to change. The Rune means to me that I must strive to live the ordinary life in a non-ordinary way. This is what it says in The Book of Runes. Take heart, in the spirit you are always beginning.”
― Denny Taylor, Rosie's Umbrella

“Whether used for the self or in service to others, the runes
continually
reflect the collective in the individual, the unknown in
the known, and the personal embodiment of the unknowable in All
Things—the aspect of mystery in Nature that we also embody.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div., Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick

“The Old Norse cosmology gives us the awareness that while lightness may bring enlightenment, it is the darkness that initiates
change.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div., Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick

“I chose you not as my next but as my last, and should you fall, I will follow.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing, Iron Flame

“Look through the heavy pine forest and see a fire glowing. Beside it sits a bear of a man, knife in one hand, a clay bowl on the ground in front of him.
It has been a long time since he last shed blood for his Gods. Tonight would satisfy them a little while longer. The screech of a doomed animal is cut short and the bowl fills with its steaming blood. He puts it on a flat stone by the fire. He cuts his scarred wrist to let his own blood drip into the warming mixture.
For many days he has thrown his runes and has had no clear sight. He has marked each one with his blood and still they reveal nothing.
A tune starts deep in his gut. It stretches and twists like an unborn child, travelling up like a snake through his chest, setting his bones to shake. He grinds his jaw shut to keep it from escaping as it creeps up his throat.
His lips start to vibrate with the tune as it tries to push its way out. The man is well learned in the ways of the song and knows how to control it. The bowl is steaming heavily and he leans over it to breathe in the blood fumes that will give his visions. This man’s name is Vasilli and he is trying to find his brother.”
― Amy Kuivalainen

“Going by Dr. Marriott's description, Zoe imagined it to be small and elegant as she peered into dozens of shelves, rummaging through the contents. There were globes and charts and atlases, pocket watches and hand-painted Indian silk, gold-plated cutlery, litter coffers of spice, inlaid combs, silver fasteners, trinket boxes, blown-glass figurines, turn-of-the-century postcards with foreign stamps, and portraits of Victorian authors in elaborate frames. But nowhere did she discover a stone of any kind, with or without runes.”
― Christine Brodien-Jones, The Glass Puzzle

“The power of keeping the runes relevant in a modern context doesn’t lie in changing their meaning to suit our contemporary purposes but in finding how their layers of meaning still apply to everyday life.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div., Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick

“The idea that our cosmology continues to change as we evolve in our spiritual studies and that we play a role in intentionally shaping it lies at the heart of the runes; thus, they are our deepest instruction for creating the self.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div., Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick

“What makes control actually powerful is knowing what to do with it.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div., Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick

“Joy lasts in memory, it thrives in sharing.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div., Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick

“For free will is what make us Heaven's Creatures”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

“Carl Jung proposed that everything in the universe is connected. [...] Every part is considered not in isolation but in relation to the whole. He asserted that everything that takes place at a particular moment of time has the qualities of that moment, and that all events taking place at the same time are connected. [...]

The fall of the I Ching's coins, the Tarot card spread or the fall of the runes are 'meaningful coincidences' that reflect present and future events.”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, Your Psychic Powers: A Beginner's Guide