She is a girl and would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.
— Augusta Gregory, Visions And Beliefs In The West Of Ireland (via liquidnight)
But if a waking writer tells you that his tale is only a thing imagined in his sleep, he cheats deliberately the primal desire at the heart of Faërie: the realization, independent of the conceiving mind, of imagined wonder.
— “On Fairy-Stories”, by J. R. R. Tolkien
Faërie itself may perhaps most nearly be translated by Magic - but it is magic of peculiar mood and power, at the furthest pole from the vulgar devices of the laborious, scientific, magician.
— “On Fairy-Stories” by J. R. R. Tolkien
A gare parecia uma estação de brinquedo e o vendedor de bilhetes tinha cara de se meter nos copos sozinho.
— “Na Patagónia”, de Bruce Chatwin
