Toby R. Beeny > Quotes

“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.”
― Toby R. Beeny, Lilacs from the Dead Land: A Narrative of Nostalgia, Identity, and Dreams

“Flesh cannot satisfy spirit. And so now you must seek the Grail.”
― Toby R. Beeny, Lilacs from the Dead Land: A Narrative of Nostalgia, Identity, and Dreams

“I was overcome by such a deep feeling of Sehnsucht while watching Puff the Magic Dragon that I felt like crying, but of course, I was a boy and boys don't cry.”
― Toby R. Beeny, Lilacs from the Dead Land: A Narrative of Nostalgia, Identity, and Dreams

“You must take the risk. You must have faith. The mask you wear is your prison. You cannot be authentic wearing a mask.”
― Toby R. Beeny, Lilacs from the Dead Land: A Narrative of Nostalgia, Identity, and Dreams

“We men of the north are not an overly philosophical race; living in harsh, unforgiving lands does not typically afford the opportunity to recline on couches and debate the nature of the universe, as those in Kanayama are wont to do.”
― Toby R. Beeny, The Bjornlinga Saga #1

“It began with a poem, with words. Words were all I had, dull echoes in my brain. Fragile cobwebs. Her lipstick words pressed against my memories. 'Stop thinking,' I repeated to myself like a mantra. But we do not think memories, memories think us.”
― Toby R. Beeny, The Babel Project

“The world was broken over eight hundred years ago, during The Reckoning. Now it is a time of darkness, a time of war, of blood and slaughter. It is a time of fire and dissolution.”
― Toby R. Beeny, The Bjornlinga Saga #1

“The superior man, one who would follow the Iron Way, he must have struggle, he must have a goal, an impossible goal to fight for, and die for if needed. This is what he craves, not the green pasture of the cows.”
― Toby R. Beeny, The Iron Way: A Narrative of Crisis

“A cold terror gripped the men then, a fear that burrowed deep into their guts. The land itself felt malevolent, alive with a dark force that sought to consume them.”
― Toby R. Beeny, The Bjornlinga Saga #1

“Don’t you want to pierce the veil of the gods? To look at that which cannot be seen because it cannot really exist, and yet does?”
― Toby R. Beeny, The Babel Project

“It is a homesickness for a place I have never been, a sneaking feeling of being merely a traveler in this world, a dream I cannot quite remember, fading, fading...”
― Toby R. Beeny, Lilacs from the Dead Land: A Narrative of Nostalgia, Identity, and Dreams