Dreams Underfoot: UnquietDreams' Dark Whimsy

“I’ve no surety that it is. I know only parts of what I feel; I may be misnaming the whole. You dwell in my mind like a household spirit. All that I think is followed with, ‘I shall tell that thought to Eddi.’ Whatever I see or hear is colored by what I imagine you will say of it. What is amusing is twice so, if you have laughed at it. There is a way you have of turning your head, quickly with a little tilt, that seems more wonderful to me than the practiced movements of dancers. All this, taken together, I’ve come to think of as love, but it may not be.

It is not a comfortable feeling. But I find that, even so, I would wish the same feeling on you. The possibility that I suffer it alone–that frightens me more than all the host of the Unseelie Court.”


--Emma Bull,War for the Oaks
 
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“To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible."

"Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?"

He met her eyes in a way that made her shiver pleasantly. "I see you in a great many ways. It would be hard to blind me in all of them.”


--Emma Bull, War for the Oaks
 
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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
 
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Evie is, with no doubt, one of my favorite film characters for this reason. She later uses her skills and knowledge and experience to save everyone, several times. She is such a wonderful, powerful character.

(I hated making her a fighting action hero, via reincarnation magic, in the second film.)
 
“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"

"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.

"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"

"A pit full of fire."

"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"

"No, sir."

"What must you do to avoid it?"

I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come, was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”


--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
 
She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their own hearts. They all straddle the border of Faerie, and they see into both worlds. Not dependably into either, perhaps, but that uncertainty keeps them honest and at a distance.”

--Emma Bull, War for the Oaks
 
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