Fanciful Quotes
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“When people’s parallel truth collides with their real truth, they may have a hard time in subduing all the fanciful items and characters of their invented world. (“The day the mirror was talking back”)”
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“The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.”
― Catwings
― Catwings
“But you shouldn't have let her. That's the only way with these fanciful women that chaw high--innocent or guilty. She'd have come round in time. We all do! Custom does it! It's all the same in the end! However, I think she's fond of her man still--whatever he med be of her. You were too quick about her. I shouldn't have let her go! I should have kept her chained on-- her spirit for kicking would have been broke soon enough! There's nothing like bondage and a stone-deaf taskmaster for taming us women. Besides, you've got the laws on your side. Moses knew.”
― Jude the Obscure
― Jude the Obscure
“The early dew-falls that did a pristine coating,
over the woods with its finest transparency,
glazed as like its wet white-glassy earrings that hung on the ears of wild flowers—unlatched my fancy.”
― Venus and Crepuscule
over the woods with its finest transparency,
glazed as like its wet white-glassy earrings that hung on the ears of wild flowers—unlatched my fancy.”
― Venus and Crepuscule
“He paused by the window, looking up into a lavender sky, fingers pressed against the icy glass. No stars tonight; the snowflakes came down out of the dark, rushing towards him, endless, uncountable. Silent, too, but not like the stars. Falling snow whispered secrets to itself.
“And you are a fanciful idiot,” he said outloud.”
― Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
“And you are a fanciful idiot,” he said outloud.”
― Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
“... or else we contemplated the stars beyond the Moon, big as pieces of fruit, made of light, ripened on the curved branches of the sky, and everything exceeded my most luminous hopes ...”
― Cosmicomics
― Cosmicomics
“Blaise has always lived in a dream world."
"We all live in dream worlds," said Monty.”
― The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
"We all live in dream worlds," said Monty.”
― The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“She's also in love with the 'Polish Rider'."
"Who's he?"
"A picture by Rembrandt.”
― The Green Knight
"Who's he?"
"A picture by Rembrandt.”
― The Green Knight
“Zachariah, Zachariah,' whispers Rachel, casting a practised eye over the back of his head and down the length of him, from the shoulder blades where his wings once grew, epochs ago, in some other guise: angel—guardian, avenging—or great vagrant bird—Daurian Jackdaw, Chimney Swift, Pacific Loon!”
― Be My Wolff
― Be My Wolff
“Just a kid with hair the color of raisins and eyes the color of grape jelly, living the life glasstastic in a four bedroom wine bottle on the east end of Plum Pudding...”
― Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 100, January 2015
― Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 100, January 2015
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