Monday 31 December 2012

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”

― Edith Lovejoy Pierce
 
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“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”

― Brad Paisley
 
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The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.”

― Melody Beattie
 
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Sunday 30 December 2012

“Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the heart and spirit from too much of worldly regulations and duties. He is a god of joy and freedom. Any uncultivated, tangled, and primal woodland is very much his domain.” 

― Tanith Lee, The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
 
 
 


Saturday 29 December 2012

"Beware the door with too many keys"
Portuguese Proverb
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Friday 28 December 2012

“If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.”

― Guy de Maupassant
 
 


Thursday 27 December 2012

“Be an opener of doors”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 


Wednesday 26 December 2012

"You shall not pass!"
 
- Gandalf, Lord of the Rings, J.R.R.Tolkien.
 
 
 


Tuesday 25 December 2012

“When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.”
― Bob Hope
 
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“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
― Harlan Miller
 
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“Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.”
― Joan Mills
 
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“Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion."
~ (1889-1970), American religious leader. ”
― Ralph Sockman
 
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Monday 24 December 2012

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."

― Norman Vincent Peale
 
 
 
 



Sunday 23 December 2012

“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.”

― Laura Ingalls Wilder
 
 


Saturday 22 December 2012

“They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.”

― Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
 
 


Friday 21 December 2012

 
“It was an amazing garden like nothing Will had ever seen. Everything was covered in snow and glittering ice, the winding paths, the clusters of trees and what looked like mazes. And here and there blue fountains splashed and a river meandered between them, though the water didn’t look like water at all but like a stream of sapphires. And strangest of all was how see-through everything looked, trees showing through trees, the river showing through heaps of snow. It was all like a daydream, half imagination, half reality. But Will knew that it was real.”

― Dew Pellucid
 
 



Thursday 20 December 2012

 
“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”

― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
 
 


Wednesday 19 December 2012

“That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.”

― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden.
 
 


Saturday 15 December 2012

“Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.”

― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
 
 


Friday 14 December 2012

 
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
 
 
 


Thursday 13 December 2012

"'Tis not the season of
the leaf whose
fragile body’s broken veins
disintegrate in
gusts of winds while
winter blows a frosty coat that
caps the barren land."

- Lucille Younger 
 
 


Wednesday 12 December 2012

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”

― Charles M. Schulz
 
 


Tuesday 11 December 2012

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost..."

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
 
 


Monday 10 December 2012

“Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.”

― Stevie Nicks
 


Sunday 9 December 2012

"I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.
'We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,'
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December."


- Oliver Herford, I Heard a Bird Sing
 





Saturday 8 December 2012

“Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.”

― Kellie Elmore
 
 


Friday 7 December 2012

“Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed.

"Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs."

"Really?"

"Oh, yes."

She followed him into the darkness. "How are they magic?"


"They just are."

"In what way?"

"In a magicky way."

She glared at the back of his head. "They aren't magic at all, are they?"

"Not really.”


― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
 
 
 
(doll's house stairs)


Thursday 6 December 2012

“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity”

― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)
 
 


Wednesday 5 December 2012

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....”

― Kate Morton, The House At Riverton
 
 
 
 
Photo not taken by me (obviously!), but I own it (it came with a Victorian
photo album that I bought).


Tuesday 4 December 2012

“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins”

― Gustave Flaubert
 


Monday 3 December 2012

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land.
 
 
 


Sunday 2 December 2012

“The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror”
 
― Gustave Flaubert
 
 
 
Photo by me.
From now on, rather than keep writing 'photo by me' every single time, I will
only leave an ending note/credit if the photo is NOT by me. :)


Saturday 1 December 2012

"I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing."
- Kate Moss
 
 
 
Photo by me.