"Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things."

-- Charles de Lint

#Lying Quotes #Night Quotes #Blue Quotes

“Pay attention to what you're passionate about when no one is paying you.”
“You don't want me to feel obligated? Well, I'm sorry, Lily. I am here because I feel obligated." He brought her hand to his chest, pressing her palm flat against his rapidly thumping pulse. "I'm obligated by my heart. It's decided you're essential to my existence, you see. And it's threatening to go out on labor strike if I don't make you mine this very day. So yes. I am here on bended knee, acting from a deep, undeniable sense of obligation. I am, quite simply, yours." He swallowed hard. "If you'll have me.”
“All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.”
“Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives”
“Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.”
“How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.”
“A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.”
“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”

Source : Connie Willis (2011). “Impossible Things”, p.89, Spectra

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