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Link reblogged from Beagle Quotes
“When I was alive, I believed—as you do—that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said ‘one o’clock’ as though I could see it, and ‘Monday’ as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as…
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Photo reblogged from A Faerytale Life ~ In Poetry, Imagery & Quotes
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The maiden is sent to seek out the unicorn. Smooth and sudden as a flight of birds, she enters the maze of dappled shadow and he comes to her, gentle as a rose, caught in her hair, woven into the web of her mind, multiplying softly within her.— In Pursuit of The Unicorn, by Josephine Bradley.[Artwork by Nobuteru Yuuki.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/19ebd91d23794f2e6164b1ca1b96e437/tumblr_mkwk2dZoI21re1snbo1_500.jpg)
The maiden is sent to seek out the unicorn. Smooth and sudden as a flight of birds, she enters the maze of dappled shadow and he comes to her, gentle as a rose, caught in her hair, woven into the web of her mind, multiplying softly within her.
— In Pursuit of The Unicorn, by Josephine Bradley.
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Photo reblogged from A Faerytale Life ~ In Poetry, Imagery & Quotes
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
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Photo reblogged from Arthur Pendragon: The Once and Future King
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Every momentwhen our paths cross,my heart beats an impossible rhythmthat only echoes your namethrough every chasm residing in my lungs.— Unknown.[Artwork: Arthur and Guenivere, by Ruth Sanderson.]
Arthur and Gwen.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/856b3cd48c2925c79dc17fca49b3d406/tumblr_mlf539N8Rr1re1snbo1_500.jpg)
Every moment
when our paths cross,
my heart beats an impossible rhythm
that only echoes your name
through every chasm residing in my lungs.
— Unknown.
[Artwork: Arthur and Guenivere, by Ruth Sanderson.]Arthur and Gwen.
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Photoset reblogged from The Official Peter S Beagle tumblr
The Last Unicorn
The Harpy Celeano
2010
These are gorgeous and brilliant.
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Photo reblogged from fuckyeahreading!
Ernest Hemingway is my favorite writer by inter-vivos on Flickr.
Ernest Hemingway on the power of good books.
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Photo reblogged from The Official Peter S Beagle tumblr
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Photo reblogged from Bending anything black and white and read all over
This just happened. I jumped up and down in happiness and scared my cat.
In which Howl’s Moving Castle is featured on Jeopardy.
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Photo reblogged from fuckyeahreading!
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And every day she searches the sea and the sky, the castle and the courtyard, the keep and the king’s face, for something she cannot always remember. What is it, what is it that she is seeking in this strange place? She knew a moment ago, but she has forgotten.THE LAST UNICORN
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‘Hi,’ said Prince Lir. ‘Glad to meet you.’ His smile wriggled at their feet like a hopeful puppy, but his eyes—a deep shadowy blue behind stubby lashes—rested quietly on the eyes of the Lady Amalthea. She looked back at him, silent as a jewel, seeing him no more truly than men see unicorns. But the prince felt strangely, happily certain that she had looked him round and through, and down into caverns that he had never known were there, where her glance echoed and sang. Prodigies began to waken somewhere southwest of his twelfth rib, and he himself—still mirroring the Lady Amalthea—began to shine.THE LAST UNICORN
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Disdaining shielding shadow, it gleamed in full sunshine, obvious as a tree—or as a Human, who thinks his own kind kings of the world.MERLIN’S HARP
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It should not be possible to get men into a fortress dressed as washerwomen. Three of them had moustaches, for goodness sake!Sam Vimes on dull old rouses.
MONSTROUS REGIMENT (Discworld)
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Photo reblogged from fuckyeahreading!
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ~ C. S. Lewis
Me either.
