“When someone from Faerie ever tells you something, you can see it - you can feel it - you believe it. For the true value of enchantment and its glamour, is in the imparting of a truth - by truth's own persuasion it makes itself real.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
“...for the purity of first light is bliss
and surely the whole point of faith
is just in this: -
Not that we believe
but that we ask of He
to have faith in us.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
“True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good.
... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no real result.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
“Thoughts alone are potent writs of becoming.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
“There are faerie lights in Faerie - not the tiny paper lanterns that you might see strung up high upon a tree, and not the fat neon fireflies that sprinkle the forests at night - no, these lights are actually the beings themselves, visible as just a pinpoint of light, like stars on the sky, the etheric beings grace our world with fleeting sparks of brilliant radiance.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
“Men are tested and tried amongst deceptions radically and they are winning for themselves abilities to give, to deliberate, to stand fast, to choose well, to discriminate.”
“They are far from the 'automata' of the Universe some think them to be. They dance the starry path and are sharpening their knowledge with every orbit of each positive thought travelled.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
“For all beings within this universal kingdom, their magnetic north rests in genuine mirth.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
“The strange thing about magic is how easily one can feel familiar with it. Much like a dream, its message can infill the senses of the soul and persuade the consciousness in a way that is undeniable. As intoxicating as the musk of romance and as enlightening as the whispers of hidden wisdom, magic can take you back into the very realm of your childhood … and leave you there.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
“Between the borders of Faerie and the physical world stands an ancient forest where the trees are exceedingly tall; and although no longer visible to men, their roots go deep into its earth.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
“Heaven itself is just a little less than perfect: for perfection, by self-definition, is a static condition, and anything truly static has deceased its purpose.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
“Sometimes when deep magic is before you, it can be taken as something quite ordinary. Only when looking back does one question what had just taken place, and make note that it had been queer or unusual. The deeper a magic is, the more normal it can appear.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
“Some things are so natural they are effortless ... and loving is one of them.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
“The thoughts of Man build future worlds, whilst the emotions of the Fey build up this, our Natural World.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
“The word 'weird' is never spoken or thought of by the Fey, as to them there is nothing very strange when you take it as it is.”
― Gabriel Brunsdon, quote from Azlander: Second Nature
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Born place: in Richmond, Australia
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“Even when I succeed in getting there we only have an hour. At ten o’clock the night-watch trumpet sounds and those who are out return to bed. What a blameless, hardworking nation we are. In bed by ten, faithful husbands and faithful wives. It is no city for lovers, for those out late on the street are viewed with suspicion.”
― Deborah Moggach, quote from Tulip Fever
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― Scarlett Dawn, quote from King Hall
“cbut my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.”
― quote from KJV Study Bible
“I want two scars, one on each of my shoulder blades.”
He shrugged in confusion. “What do you mean?”
“Two scars,” I repeated, “for where my wings used to be, where my wings were torn away from me.”
― Christos Tsiolkas, quote from Barracuda
“Parents are temporary custodians, keeping watch and offering love and trying to leave the child better than they found him.”
― Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, quote from The Nest
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