"The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other."

-- Jane Yolen

#Fall Quotes #Longing Quotes #Tales Quotes

“The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide, in which landscapes are devastated and the populations that live there slowly starve or turn upon each other savagely because there isn't enough food or water to go around.”
“The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries.”
“Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.”

Source : Christopher Pearse Cranch (1844). “Poems”, p.51
“When you're in a room with a guy who has a vision like that, it's just one of those things where you close your eyes and just see that vision - then you just go with it. The guys that I write with are so incredible, just like my producer Trent Willmon, those guys know how to bring things out of me - especially things that I maybe didn't even know that I had.”

Source : Source: www.maroonweekly.com
“If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going to make it harder. Because when people all share values, when people all share morals, they become a team.”
“When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.”

Source : Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.41, Bantam
“The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Often touching . . . Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips . . . In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurb.”

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