“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book The problem with being a werewolf is that you have no autonomy. Your life is just decided for you. Once a month you become a killing machine unable to decide your own fate, …
Tag: fantasy
Real Life Music Score
“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Whenever an important event would happen in Camilla's life, music would start to play; Although, no one else seemed to hear it. She was relieved when the music was gentle and calming or even upbeat. It was the menacing melodies she had to look …
The Fae Garden
“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”― William Goldman, The Princess Bride Everyone thought that she had past away years ago, but because she died in the garden of the fae, her heart sprouted out of her chest and joined the flowers around her. The garden became her. She became the garden. …
The Spookier Path
“Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.”― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth They had reached a crossroads. To the left there were old dead trees and thorny …
Strange Power
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”― John Milton, Paradise Lost Peter was born with a strange power. He could bend reality to his will. Anything that existed, he could take it out of existence with a thought, and anything he could imagine, he could …
Banished to the Sea
“When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,And now I do not sleep.”― John Gardner, Grendel A thousand years ago, or maybe two, Levi was banished to the sea for stealing away the man of his heart. The man was meant to be a prince, …
Morbid Curiosity
“Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.”― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things TW: violence, murder, intrusive thoughts Jacob always thought he had a morbid sense of humor, but when his thoughts become out-of-control murder fantasies, he …
Time Out of Order
“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck …
Telling Fortunes
“No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!”― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw The witch had been telling prophecies for years, it was her main …
Dysphoria
“The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences."― Jeanne Duprau, The City of Ember Stevie's hero is the Hulk because he's the only one who is like Stevie. When she gets too upset, strange …
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