"I would that I were where I wish,
Out on the sea in a wooden dish;
But if that dish begins to fill--
I'd wish I were on Mousehole hill."
--Old Cornish Rhyme collected from Don Flamanck
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
--?
"'All in green, 'he said softly, 'on a black horse, to bid me come and eat with you.' It sounded like an old song."
--Patricia McKillip Winter Rose p 57
"It's not that I'm afraid to die. It's just that I don't want to be there when it happens."
--attributed to Woody Allen
Come away oh human child
To the waters and the wild.
With a faery hand in hand
For the world's more full of weeping
Than you can understand.
--W.B. Yeats "Stolen Child"
To some people, a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.
--?
"I did not know, until then, that you could disappear into someone's gaze, that bone and heart and breath could melt like shadow into light, until only light was left."
--Patricia McKillip Winter Rose p 38
"OUR PLANET IS OUR HOME IN THE VASTNESS OF SPACE MY QUEST IS TO GUARD AND PROTECT IT AND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT GIVE US LIFE"
--Susan (I got this from a folder, and it was written all in capital letters, so I kept it that way.)
"Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it."
--Oliver Cromwell
"his failed daughter, his fey child, who had left her shoes in a corncrib to go dancing wtih the night."
--Patricia McKillip Winter Rose p 47
"Courtship consists of a number of quiet attentions...not so pointed as to alarm, yet not so vague as to be misunderstood."
--Laurence Sterne
No magic can change something into something it is not; the imaginative transformation at the heart of magic is recognition, not creation....
--Susan Palwick
Everything is possible
Beyond the invisible
--Enigma
Try to live your lost illusions
They are the spice of life
--Enigma
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
--Rachel Carson
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom"
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.
--Ancient Coptic Saying
The faeries break their dances
And leave the printed lawn.
--A.E. Housman Last Poems