it was a deceptive blankness, the blankness of a rock face that one only realizes cannot be climbed when one is halfway up, and there is no longer any way down
Yana Manukhinahas quoted4 years ago
“How d’you like your baths?” she asked, solicitously, “warm, hot, or boil-a-lobster?”
Yana Manukhinahas quoted4 years ago
“You are young, and in love,” said Primus. “Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”
Nikolai Tolmachevhas quoted7 years ago
“I am the most miserable person who ever lived,” he said to the Lord Primus, when they stopped to feed the horses feedbags of damp oats. “You are young, and in love,” said Primus. “Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”
Susie Daugaard Møllerhas quoted8 years ago
(Fairy Tales, as G.K. Chesterton once pointed out, are not true. They are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.)
_Umaroth_has quotedyesterday
Cupid and Psyche is retold and half forgotten and remembered again and becomes Beauty and the Beast
_Umaroth_has quotedyesterday
Once upon a time, Orpheus brought Eurydice back alive from Hades. But that is not the version of the tale that has survived.
(Fairy Tales, as G.K. Chesterton once pointed out, are not true. They are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.)
_Umaroth_has quotedyesterday
The imagination is a dangerous place, after all, and you can always use a guide to the territory.
Even if you never got to be a werewolf when you grew up
_Umaroth_has quoted2 days ago
Cupid and Psyche is retold and half forgotten and remembered again and becomes Beauty and the Beast.
La historia de Eros y Psyche la pusieron en la novela gráfica lore Olympus obvio no te explican de todo a todo pero la historia original es muy bonita
_Umaroth_has quoted2 days ago
When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf. Or a writer. But writer was definitely the number two alternative. Werewolfing was an easy number one