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“We are not what we are. Our tragedy is that we don't even know it. The world is not what we think it is. It is fathomlessly alive. none of us is a single entity, we are many-formed, polytropos. Everywhere, all the time.”
― Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

“A pilgrim needs a nominal destination, but it is the road that makes the journey. Pilgrims travel out of the sheer yearning to discover something missing, a previously unexcavated layer that, once revealed under the grime, shines like gold. The pilgrim desires knowledge through experience. She desires the fullness of the big picture.”
― Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

“It is supposed that the outward eye cannot see any of this. But there are places where the eye becomes inward and the soul of the world becomes outward. Places where something is collectively alchmised. The bottom of the ocean and the desert exist at the same time in the same place. There, the soul of the world roams free.”
― Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

“The final stage in the alchemical process is sublimatio â€� where matter is etherised and the personal ego is sublimated. Its element is air and its expression is the sylph. And in this place, there was only one way to feel. Sublime.

In the lower world, things weigh a tonne. Here, only the essence remains. I have wasted precious time on things that don't matter.”
― Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

“Everything happens twice. Once as life itself, and twice as memory â€� or forgetting.”
― Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

“This is the meaning of an ecosystem,â€� said Elijah. ‘This is the meaning of nature. Pri-roda.â€� Prioda is literally ‘with the clan.â€� To be in nature is to return to your own kind.”
― Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

“This is the meaning of an ecosystem,â€� said Elijah. ‘This is the meaning of nature. Pri-roda.â€� Prioda is literally ‘with the clan.â€� To begin nature is to return to your own kind.”
― Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

“We have lost two things that we need to be well: darkness and silence. Our nervous systems are polluted with noise and electric lights. The affluent do 'dark therapy' and silent retreats. You have to buy silence and darkness, because the civilised world doesn't provide it for free. It trains us to be afraid of silence and darkness. And in exchange for our fear, it entertains us with noise and lights. Noise and lights stand in for lost meaning and lost power. They are false idols that replace the sacred. We are prisoners of our civilisation, tortured with noise and lights, unable to rest.”
― Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time, Library Edition

“The planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places, people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And this has little to do with success as we have defined it.
—David Orr, ecologist”
― Kapka Kassabova, Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time