Quick Quotes - Round Three

[Emily Spencer]

Time has no meaning in the wyldwood. Day and night don't really exist here, just light and darkness, and they can be as fickle and moody as everything else.

From The Iron Knight by Julie Kagawa

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Something you would find on a signpost in a fantasy setting.

"Domicile of the Moon," ...

from Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews

[Prof. Amy Lupin]

Beans have been sent!
Apologies for missing Quick Quotes last week - I had to deal with a nargle infestation.

Our next prompt is:
A story in and of itself

From Murder at Blackburn Hall by Sara Rossett:

I gave myself a mental shake. I wasn't actually a publisher's assistant. The whole thing was a façade. I needed to rein in my enthusiasm for my imaginary job.

[Emily Spencer]

Let me tell you something straight off. This is a love story, but not like any you've ever heard. The boy and the girl are far from innocent. Dear lives are lost. And good doesn't win.

From: Tiger Lily byJodi Lynn Anderson

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

From “Off to Be the Wizard” by Scott Meyer:

“Martin wasn’t totally awake, but not totally asleep either. He was in that hazy, semiconscious state where the dreams of the night before dovetail with the reality of the day ahead. That time where you find yourself thinking how unfortunate it is that your lower half has been replaced with the body of a crab, and how difficult it will be to explain to your boss that you couldn’t come in to work because your pants are now impractical.”

[River Fenwick]

Brian looked back and for a moment felt afraid because the wolf was so...so right. He knew Brian, knew him and owned him and chose not to do anything to him. But the fear moved then, moved away, and Brian knew the wolf for what it was—another part of the woods, another part of all of it.

From Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

A story in and of itself

This, too, will pass.

from A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

[Prof. Amy Lupin]

Beans have been sent.

Our next prompt is:
The subject of a painting

From The Egyptian Antiquities Murder by Sara Rosett:

a bright field of wildflowers and an expansive sky.

[Emily Spencer]

a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon

From Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

From “Mary Poppins” by P.L. Travers:

“the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star”

[River Fenwick]

the deep-rutted, grassy lane bordered with wild rose bushes

From Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

The subject of a painting

Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.

From Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling

[Emily Spencer]

Beans are on the way!

Our first prompt in June is:
Part of a fortune teller’s prophecy

They may call you what they like but that does not make you who you are.

From: Medusa by Nataly Gruender

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

From “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens:

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”

[River Fenwick]

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it.

From Looking for Alaska by John Green

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Part of a fortune teller’s prophecy

"One who can weave the power words into sentences wouldn't die from a single word."

from Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

[Emily Spencer]

Beans are on the way!

Our next prompt for June is:

Advice for graduating students

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

From: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde