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If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

—Ursula K. Le Guin (art by Heikala) #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.
'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’

~Gandalf
#TolkienReadingDay

Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

~Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
#BookWormSat #ofdarkandmacabre #gothicspring #bookchatweekly

Happy St. Patrick’s Day🍀

Sharing some leprechaun images from my beloved and worn copy of FAERIES by Brian Froud and Alan Lee that I’ve had since I was 12.
#bookchatweekly #bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre #superstitiology

Cecile Walton (1891-1956)
#ofdarkandmacabre

What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same.

—Andrew Michael Hurley
#ofdarkandmacabre #gothicspring
#bookchatweekly

The Graeae Sisters, from Greek mythology, are Deino (dread), Enyo (horror) and Pemphredo (alarm). Between them, they shared one eye and one tooth. The magical eye was imbued with wisdom, though the tooth was merely for chewing.
#wyrdwednesday #ofdarkandmacabre

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.

~Neil Gaiman #bookchatweekly
art by Julianna Bíbor

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

~Elizabeth Hand, Illyria
art John William Waterhouse (1903)
#faustianfriday #bookchatweekly

To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

~Henrik Johan Ibsen, Peer Gynt
In the Hall of the Mountain King
#FairyTaleTuesday