Hallowe'en Trick or Treat Meme

[lost_spook]

Memed from justice_turtle and dbskyler:

In honor of All Hallow's Eve, I'm inviting trick-or-treaters to my 'door.' Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and...well, you know the drill. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (pics of fave actors or pairings, one sentence fics, graphics, a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.). The more "houses

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[sallymn]

Trick or treat, yes please!!

[lost_spook]

Okay, I thought, for you it should be words. I tend to like small collections of words (quotes, heh), so here are some.

Also, this makes me think of you now, even if it is not your era of DW: "For some people, small, beautiful things are what life is all about." (It's the icons.)

(Some of the quotes make sense, some are just for the words, some because they amuse me & they're mainly from things I've randomly collected at some point.)

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And by what witchery in the western hills
A throne stands empty for a thousand years.

The trees looked more than ever like sulky phantoms, obliged by an unkind spell to linger shivering out there in the wet.

"I'm undefined, that's my trouble. I like to think of myself as a shady, rather mysterious figure about the household, but I'm not, I'm not. I'm just the general dogsbody."

From witty men and mad
All poetry conception had

"We would not, even if we could, be ostentatiously vulgar."

Passionate peace is in the sky--
And in the snow in silver sealed

The most frightening word there can

[sallymn]

Oooh, I've saved this - I may need help with inspiration in this writing month, and some of these have echoes in my mind...

[lost_spook]

Aw, that's nice. :-)

Also, I left off any attributations, but if you want to know who said any of the less obvious ones, I do have that info. Somewhere. (I just wanted random word-snatches for you, heh.)

[justice_turtle]

Was "sulky phantoms obliged by an unkind spell" DWJ? Somehow it sounds like her, to me.

[lost_spook]

Heh, it's not. It's Joan Aiken, from Midnight Is A Place. Though it's interesting that you say that, because although they are quite different in many ways, they are filed in the same box in my head. (Mainly for being two great Children's authors who were writing at the same time, but anyway...)