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"The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride, Night unto day is married, morn unto eventide, Earth a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true,And Earth is quite coquettish, and beseemeth in vain to sue."
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"Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real."
"A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working."
"I was trying to do you a favor, you silly woman. A few more hours in the fire, and your baby boy would have been immortal! He would've grown into a fine young god and brought you eternal honor. Now you've ruined the magic. He will simply be human-a great hero, yes, strong and tall, but doomed to a mortal life. He will only be Demophoon, when he could have been Fully Phoon! Phoon the Great!"
"I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end of it all. The gods were going to battle the frost giants, and they were all going to die.Had Ragnarok happened yet? Was it still to happen? I did not know then. I am not certain now."
"They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans."
"From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story."
"They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak."
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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
"I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there 's a pair of us-don't tell! They 'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!"
"Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved it proves too There was no Melody."
"Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light."
"Bless God, he went as soldiers,His musket on his breast-Grant God, he charge the bravestOf all the martial blest!Please God, might I behold himIn epauletted white-I should not fear the foe then-I should not fear the fight!"
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