“But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.”― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth Jamie had always wanted adventure, so when she heard of a magical treasure that could grant her any wish, she was already out the door. On her journey, she heard many different tales of the treasure. …
Tag: fantasy
The Man of Fate and Chaos
Dan: “There's a man... in back of this place. He's the one who's doing it. I can see him through the wall. I can see his face. I hope that I never see that face, ever, outside of a dream.”-David Lynch, Mulholland Drive There's a man who can change the fate of anyone in the universe by simply …
The Fairy’s Kiss
“Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.”― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron The fairy only asked for one payment, a kiss. Some were desperate and willing and thought nothing of her price. Others were weary, and still others she would appear to as a hag and test their …
Dystopia
“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”― Lois Lowry, The Giver Everything was perfect, as it should be. Every person was provided for evenly. No one went hungry. No one was homeless, and yet Charlie didn't feel right. She woke up every day at the same …
Passion
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves Character development challenge: What is your …
The Dance of the Sky Dragon
“They moved in dance steps too intricate for the noninitiated eye to imitate or understand. Clearly they were of one soul. Handsome, rangy, wildly various, they were bound in total loyalty, not by oath, but by the simple, unquestioning belongingness of part of one organism.”― Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine Every summer they would dance. It was supposed …
Midnight Lilies
“Stars open among the lilies.Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?This is the silence of astounded souls." ― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems, "Crossing the Water" There was an opening in the forest far, far away from town that no one had entered in decades. Murmurs in town said that there were midnight lilies there: a …
Princess of the Birds
“It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.”― Toni Morrison, Sula The winged goddess swore she would never return to Earth after her daughter left to live amongst the humans and created the vast array of birds that live on Earth now, but after war breaks …
How to Keep the Dead in the Ground
“To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.”― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow They knew it was coming, it happened every year. Halloween night the graves would start to quake. Decomposed hands would burst from …
The Teeth Fairies
“Thinking about her was the same as the hole you keep on feeling with your tongue after you lose a tooth. Time after time, my mind kept going to that empty spot, the spot where I felt like she should be.”― Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie When she was a kid, Charlie was convinced she actually saw …
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