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“I was dead and drowned. I lay on the bottom of the fishhouse creek looking up at the night sky through a low tide. I could make out amber lights of stars and the moon dulled by the peat water of the creek."
―Mark Richard, Fishboy

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2022-07-17

Bookish Coda:

“Second to the right, and straight on till morning."

“That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions.”
—Peter Pan

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2022-07-15


“The Bhean-Nimhir, the Nighean Imhir… the Serpent Woman, the Daughter of Ivor-“ […] Then he remembered an old tale of the isles, and his heart sank, because the tale was of a woman of the underworld who could suck the soul out of a man through his lips…

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2022-07-14

“The music of white dances softly around
The soft silence & blue are bound
Purple is calm, the sound soft & sweet
The color lightness of a rainbow is a hypnotic beat
In yellow, the silence is loud
While red is a yell, robust and proud”

~ Jennifer Betts


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2022-07-14

“There is something waiting for us at the edge of the woods, and it is our fate to meet it…”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves



🌾 JustinONealArt

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2022-07-14

Some people think that there are no fairies. But it is a wide world, and plenty of room in it for fairies, without people seeing them; unless, of course, they look in the right place.

Charles Kingsley 
The Water-Babies

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2022-07-14

"Out yonder, under the shining vault,
among men the saying goes: "Man, be thyself!"
At home here with us, 'mid the tribe of the trolls,
the saying goes: "Troll, to thyself be-enough!" (Ibsen)

🎨 Kittelsen

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2022-07-13

All the world will be your enemy…But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

—Watership Down, Richard Adams✨

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2022-07-13

'A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.'
-Jean Rhys

🎨Edmund Dulac

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2022-07-12

"... and then I shut my eyes, and put my hands over them and whisper the word, and the Alala comes. I only do this at night in my room or in certain woods that I know, but I must not describe them, as they are secret woods." (Arthur Machen)

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2022-07-12

Shona MacDonald, llustration of 'The Cat and the Moon' as part of the book 'The Moon Spun Round' a collection of poetry by W. B. Yeats, edited by Noreen Doody, and published by the O'Brien Press, 2016.
https://t.co/9lTtwGwNZI

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2022-07-11

The Bed-Time Book, by Helen Hay Whitney, 1907. by Jessie Willcox Smith, one of America’s most popular & prolific children’s

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2022-07-10