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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[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 be is love.

I have known the inorexible sadness of pencils.

O God, make small
The old star-eaten blanket of the sky,
That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.

The silver and violet leopard of the night
Spotted with stars and smooth with silence sprang;
And though three doors stood open, the end of light
Closed like a trap; and stillness was a clang.

A good image is a picture fired point blank into the brain.

The umbrellas looked like parties on sticks.

Reason and justice grip the remotest and loneliest star... Think of forests of adamant with leaves of brilliants. Think the moon is a blue moon, a single elephantine sapphire...

"I'm silly all the time. It's just more noticeable in the mornings."

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long, and the age of epics is past.

Shortly ere He came, the deep foul gulf did move
On all sides down to the centre, till I thought
The universe trembled in the throes of love.

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Oh, and I mentioned Joan Aiken the other day. She is clearly also in love with words; I failed to say that. I was v amused to hear (in the TV version of MiaP) this line of hers: "Of all the pesky, contumacious, bellicocious tax-defaulters, he's the worst!" (I can't remember if they also kept the following one: "Will you please represent to Sir Randolph that he must not punch a tax official nor call him a skrimshanked blatherskite?" But it may be the only time they got contumacious in a children's TV serial. I thought you'd approve.)

And, just in case you haven't seen this & weird random highly subjectively chosen quotes were not much of a treat, (probably my fave Eleven-era fanfic): The Care & Feeding of Tiny Humans by netgirl_y2k.

[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...)