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I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails. ↗


— Mary Boykin Chesnut


#i #i think #journal #like #me

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. ↗


— Michel Foucault


#fantastic #fantasy #imagination #reading #imagination

When we are no longer children we are already dead ↗


— Constantin Brancusi


#fantastic #fantasy #imagination #imagination

There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings. ↗


— Clive Barker


#imagination

...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me. 'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!' - Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher ↗


— Jim Butcher


#harry-dresden #magic #paranormal #wizards #death

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough. ↗


— Robert Downey, Jr.


#enough #hard #hero #human #human being

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. ↗


— L.M. Montgomery


#fantasy #imagination #shadows #writing #imagination

My father laughed. "The magic of Summer," he said, "is unlike anything else. Imagine life, fertility, laughter, joy, ripening fruits and the smell of fresh bread baking in the morning. That is Summer magic." Forever Frost (Frost Series 2) ↗


— Kailin Gow


#forever-frost #frost-series #ya-fantasy #young-adult #imagination

You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I am sure that such a thing would be quite shocking! And Charles would not do so either, would you, dear Charles?”(Elizabeth Ombersley) “No, certainly not. But neither would I consent to her marriage with any such frippery fellow as Augustus Fawnhope!” “Augustus,” announced Cecilia, putting up her chin, “will be remembered long after you have sunk into oblivion!” “By his creditors? I don’t doubt it. ↗


— Georgette Heyer


#marriage #siblings #imagination

Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days. ↗


— Clive Barker


#fantasy #fear #horror #poem #scary






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