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“My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.”
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“And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it were? Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel.”
― Infernal Devices
― Infernal Devices
“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home--they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you too. You eat well because the intensity of taste reminds you of a need satisfied, a pain relieved. The finest paintings are nothing more than the red head of a flower, nodding in the breeze, when you were two years old; the most exciting film is just the way everything was, back in the days when you stared goggle-eyed at the whirling chaos all around you. All these things do is get the adult to shut up for a while, to open for just a moment a tiny sliding window in the cell deep inside, letting the pallid child peep hungrily out and drink the world in before darkness falls again.”
― Only Forward
― Only Forward
“For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you.”
― Silver on the Tree
― Silver on the Tree
The Alternative Worlds
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A private group focusing on thoughtful, engaged discussions of speculative fiction. Author members are welcome but please be aware that this is a prom ...more
Arthuriana -- all things King Arthur !
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— last activity May 09, 2022 02:00PM
For fans of any and all versions of the Arthur tale, from Le Morte D'Arthur to the graphic novel Camelot 3000 to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Aval ...more
Crack'd from Side to Side!
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— last activity Nov 27, 2014 08:21AM
A very private group to talk about fantasy literature, science fiction, and other fun stuff in ways both intellectual and humor filled. This group is ...more
The Legendary Book Club of Habitica
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— last activity Jan 29, 2019 11:34PM
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For everyone who is interested in folklore and fairytales, either as a reader/hearer, writer/storyteller, or researcher.
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