J. Aleksandr Wootton Quotes

#1. The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears. In Virginia the late autumn was a lover, still, but a dangerous one.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#2. Is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it, or does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom?

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#3. Death breached the silence first. 'Mortals are always calling for me,' he said, 'Especially mortals whose suffering is very great, and especially mortals whose suffering is of their own making, and especially mortals who have never known suffering.

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#4. I have lain long here in your mind, longer than any nightmare has before me. I have sunk my roots into your worst imaginings and feasted on your memories. I know you, child.

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#5. The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.

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#6. Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to span
When it gathers to egg once more

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#7. Here march the eaters of earth,
the swallowers of rain.

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#8. Sunrise over the mountain-forest was gorgeous - Aurora brushing out her golden tresses with a comb of dark-needled pine and bare-limbed oak.

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#9. Grief is always sudden as winter, no matter how long the autumn.

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#10. A fear conquered is a fear harnessed.
-Wysteria Morningstar

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#11. The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.

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#12. Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?

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#13. Sooner or later, everybody dreams of other worlds.

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#14. There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.

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#15. You are much larger than anything you encounter while you sleep. Everything that happens in dream takes place on a small stage in a corner of your mind.

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#16. Live in the moment ... but don't be led by the moment, or the people who belong to it.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#17. Does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom, or is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it?

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#18. Just because you believe in fairies doesn't mean you have to believe everything they say!
-Petra Godfellow

J. Aleksandr Wootton