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“On the dead walk, & on every tile of the house a soul is sitting, waiting for your prayers to take it out of purgatory.”

From Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Francesca Wilde, 1888

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"We were immured in ice and should probably never escape" (Mary Shelley)

🎨 Bernie Wrightson

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2022-12-23

"High in the halls of the kings who are gone,
Jenny would dance with her ghosts..."

- Jenny of Oldstones and Duncan Targaryen, Prince of Dragonflies as mentioned in A Storm of Swords by G.R.R.Martin
🖼️ Jessi Ochse

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2022-12-10

"Ah, distinctly I remember
it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember
wrought its ghost upon the floor. "
~ Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Raven'

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2022-12-09

"Fast gliding along, a gloomy bark
Her sails are full, though the wind is still,
And there blows not a breath her sails to fill."
(Thomas Moore)

🎨 Ferdinand Leeke

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2022-12-07

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"May and October, the best-smelling months? I'll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon."

Lisa Kleypas


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2022-12-05

Then joining hands to little hands
Would bid them cling together,
“For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather…”

~ The Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti

🎨 Victoriasmoon


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2022-11-30

'The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay.'
-Robert Frost

🎨James Christopher Hill

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2022-11-30

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

~ Zelda Fitzgerald

🎨 Source: Daydreams and Moonbeams


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2022-11-29

'Black and monotonously sounding is the midnight and solitude of the rain.'
-Edward Thomas

🎨Catia Chien

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2022-11-29

"Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city." (Dickens)

🎨 Schindler (1886)

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2022-11-27

'But where in the world is the path for me
Except the river that runs to the sea!'
-Zoe Akins

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2022-11-27

'The sun, that fills with light each glistening fold,
Shall set, and leave thee dark and cold'
-William Cullen Bryant

🎨Wilhelm Bernatzik (detail)

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2022-11-23

For Book Recommendations on Chinese Legends around Chang'e, Hou Yi & the Jade Rabbit:
's "An Arrow to the Moon"
's "Daughter of the Moon Goddess"
's "Burning Roses"
G. Z. Schmidt's "The Dreamweavers"

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2022-11-21

Darklings!

A new week beckons, lights are still on, blue bird is still... alive and should open your lore & books week tomorrow, while flutters through the November gloom, quotes sombrely (for too) and RTs your dark gems!

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2022-11-21

“It difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly”✨🐈‍⬛✨

— Theophile Gautier, Ménagerie intime




🌙Dillon Samuelson

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2022-11-20

"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
(Joseph Conrad)

🎨 Thomas Moran

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2022-11-18

“They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music" (C.S. Lewis)

🎨 Tiffany Bozic

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2022-11-17

Darklings!

Time to haunt the nightly autumnal woods - we'll meet you tomorrow for another bout a nature for

🎨 13_con

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2022-11-13

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature”

~ Jane Austen


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