When in that moment, so it came to pass,
Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.
~A Midsummer Night's Dream
Act 3 Sc 2
#Shakespeare
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🎨Charles A Buchel 1905
Call Me Maybe🌻
Sweet gum sheens with a magic eight ball’s ‘Maybe’ gleam.
From the dark abyss whence answers came,
Now solstice sun with rainbows of candy cane.
—The Tin Princess
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Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel - Allegory on Life and Death
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My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.
~ Edna St Vincent Millay
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Train Going over a Bridge at Night ~ Eric Ravilious
How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.
~Paul Bowles
The Sheltering Sky
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The winsome fairies of Margaret Tarrant, #English #illustrator & #childrensauthor , (1888-1959)
#midsummer #InternationalFairyDay #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
.. dancing, dancing, I wasn't faerie but I was part of this earth, and the earth was a part of me, and I would be content to dance upon it for the rest of my life ..
~Sarah J Maas,A Court of Thorns and Roses
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The Temptation of St Anthony, David Teniers c. 1645
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„It is part of a follow-my-leader game of second-best we have all been playing - Rose with Simon, Simon with me, me with Stephen [...] It isn't a very good game; the people you play it with are apt to get hurt.”
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- D. Smith, I Capture The Castle
![„It is part of a follow-my-leader game of second-best we have all been playing - Rose with Simon, Simon with me, me with Stephen [...] It isn't a very good game; the people you play it with are apt to get hurt.”
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- D. Smith, I Capture The Castle](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzsFjEkXoAE41GB.jpg "Tenar (@Tenar_1) on Twitter photo 2023-06-28 06:14:03 „It is part of a follow-my-leader game of second-best we have all been playing - Rose with Simon, Simon with me, me with Stephen [...] It isn't a very good game; the people you play it with are apt to get hurt.”
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- D. Smith, I Capture The Castle")
“I haven't even a gift for friendship“
- L. M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
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📽️Silver Lining
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
Books were safer than other people anyway.”
~ Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
📚💖
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Jonathan woke a little after the hour, and all was ready, and he sat up in bed, propped up with pillows. He answered his 'I will' firmly and strongly. I could hardly speak; my heart was so full that even those words seemed to choke me.
The Rag Doll to Simon🐀:
“Are you my prince?” Her voice tinkled light as the bluebell, foreboding as the knell, echoing through the catacombs as if all within were wondering.
Happy Pied Piper Day!💙
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One of the greatest parts of life
is being greeted by moments that make you certain
you are where you’re meant to be
I was meant to be in this wild wind
~Alice Tyszka, Embracing The Storm
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