“I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.”
- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle.
Category: words
adventurecore-suggestions: i love all the words we have that mean traveler. i love the shades of…
i love all the words we have that mean traveler. i love the shades of difference between wanderer and rambler and rover. i love the boldness of adventurer and the purposefulness of explorer, the lawlessness of vagabond and the capability of wayfarer, the quiet reverence of pilgrim and the wild rootlessness of nomad.
“A reading major, that’s what he wants. No response papers, no exams, no analysis, just the reading.”
“A reading major, that’s what he wants. No response papers, no exams, no analysis, just the reading.”
- Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea.
- Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea.
“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle.
- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle.
“Name one hero who was happy.”
“Name one hero who was happy.”
- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles.
- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles.
“I do not see ruin as a negative thing […] What else is there to love, anyway? One cannot love a…”
“I do not see ruin as a negative thing […] What else is there to love, anyway? One cannot love a monument, a work of architecture, an institution as such except in an experience itself precarious in its fragility: it hasn’t always been there, it will not always be there, it is finite. And for this very reason I love it as mortal, through its birth and its death, through the ghost or the silhouette of its ruin, of my own—which it already is or already prefigures. How can we love except in this finitude? Where else would the right to love, indeed the love of right, come from?”
- Jacques Derrida, Force of Law.
- Jacques Derrida, Force of Law.
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things…”
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
- Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
- Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit.
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit.
“Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country….”
“Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect. Their secret country was real.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
- C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
“And I’d grown up not just in England, but in a land of fantasy. Though I was the kind of child who…”
“And I’d grown up not just in England, but in a land of fantasy. Though I was the kind of child who (like you, perhaps) read anything and everything, my true love was deep make-believe, from fairy stories to all the buried archetypes of folk tale and myth. Then when I went to the University of Oxford to study English literature, two professors named Tolkien and Lewis made sure that our syllabus stopped at the year 1832, so that we were soaked in the earliest fantasies of all: Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory’s Le Morte d'Arthur, Spencer’s The Faerie Queene. As a friend of mine said, ‘They taught us to believe in dragons.’”
- Susan Cooper, preface to the The Dark is Rising.
- Susan Cooper, preface to the The Dark is Rising.