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'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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2022-11-10

“I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night" (Milton)

🎨 Henry Fuseli

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2022-11-08

"This forest is a dangerous place," said the birds in unison.
"Now that I'm here, it most certainly is."

Quote and Art by Asya Yordanova/Tumblr

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2022-11-08

“O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear…”

~ Walt Whitman

🎨 The Fishercat by spocha


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2022-11-08

"And cried, homesick for his fair native lake:
"Rain, when will you fall? Thunder, when will you roll?"
I see that hapless bird, that strange and fatal myth"
(Baudelaire)

🎨 Jan Asselijn (c 1650)

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2022-11-04

This was a very interesting read. Not only does this book talk about racial trauma, but generational trauma as well.

https://t.co/dWWnZ0MhCB

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2022-11-04

I just finished reading Legendborn by Tracy Deonn and now I'm really excited to get into Bloodmarked, the second book in the series! I'm also really excited to see her at the (sold out) event at Oxon Hill next week! https://t.co/Svm63tFFgD

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2022-11-04

will be talking to on TONIGHT at 8-9pm GMT about her MG graphic novel, Speak Up!
All welcome!

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2022-11-03

Join us today as we hang out with our Wynderful pals at
and and of course, as usual, will happily retweet your bookish posts📚✨ https://t.co/umcSnszPid

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2022-11-02

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

—W. Somerset Maugham
Illustration by Chris Dunn

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2022-11-02

"Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums" (Maurice Maeterlinck)

🎨 Pauhami

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2022-11-02