~ halcyon . days ~

“And Anne saw it in his face. Too many battles, too many betrayals. This was not the Arthur of stories about chivalry, honor, and courtly love. This was not the Arthur of a dozen shallow Hollywood movies.

            It goes deeper.”

            ~ “Avalonia” Kristen Britain (Out of Avalon)

            “Dependency fosters weakness!”

            ~345 Frank Herbert (God Emperor of Dune)

            “You cannot understand history unless you understand its flowings, its currents and the ways leaders move within such forces. A leader tries to perpetuate the conditions which demand his leadership….”

~Herbert 382 

“With courage as my light, fighting for what’s right like you made me believe I could”  
~"On My Father’s Wings” (Quest for Camelot)

“ ‘Nothing here has been perpetrated but badinage, and bad badinage at that,’ said Elphaba. ‘Miss Galinda, you’re mighty stubborn there. You’re planting yourself in the vegetable garden for good in hopes that this Boy Visitation might occur again? Have we misread your interest?”

~103 Gregory Maguire (Wicked)

“ ‘Please, you’re too certain of yourself,’ said Boq. ‘If I may be so bold.’

‘You’re not so bold at all,’ said Elphaba, ‘you’re about as bold as teas made from used leaves. You’re embarrassing me with hanging back so. Come on, say something interesting. I’m starting to wish I’d gone to chapel.’

~Maguire 100-101

“Elphie tried to enjoy, tried to grin, but above her the stars grew thicker, more like glittering fishspawn than salt; they turned on their stalks with a cursing, grinding sound, if only she could hear it. She couldn’t hear it. Oatsie was too coarse and loud.”

~Maguire 228

"The skies throbbed with turquoise, even at midnight. Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into a hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing.
If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, it might be the best way to die.”

~Maguire 234-5

“I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.”

(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

(Malcolm Forbes)

“The mere sense of living is joy enough.”

(Emily Dickinson) but what is true living?

“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

(Helen Keller)

“No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings”

(William Blake)

“The destiny of man is in his own soul.”

(Herodotus)