Rainbow Lists

Made by thisbluespirit

Theme: Literary

1. All Prophecies come true. This is a Rule.
2. Rings are as dangerously magical as Swords.
3. Ambushes will be of four kinds, and you will have them all.
4. Armour is, in the opinion of the Management, cheating.
5. History is generally patchy and unreliable.
6. Legends are an important source of true information.
7. Food: see Stew, Scurvy, Waybread, and Stew.
8. The Management takes the very reasonable view that no one is going to wear something just because it is pretty.
9. Good means anything and everything on your side.
10. Government: most average folk seem to get on perfectly well without any of it.
11. Undo nothing. You could freeze to death.
12. You should not be able to travel more than fifty miles without something happening.
13. Weather is always wrong for what you are doing at the time.
14. Music is very important, always Good, and probably Magic, especially if played on a Harp.
15. Underwear is optional and largely non-existent.
16. Spells can do almost anything.
17. Be wary of Runes, even if they appear to say only ‘Made in Gna’ash.’.
18. Poison is in use a lot.
19. Dragons can, if they want, eat people.
20. Justice does not exist as such.
21. Almost 20% of taverns harbour an Assassin with a contract on you.
22. Remarkably few people stay dead when killed.
23. Underground passages are usually there when you need them.
24. The dead are often as literal-minded as computers.
25. Until you have saved the world with one leg or your soul missing you do not know what hardship is.

from The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones

Made by silvercat17

Theme: Quotes about the Sea & Sky

1. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
2. They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea. - Horace
3. I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, / And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by - John Masefield, "Sea-Fever"
4. I'll never again feel as tall as the sky and as old as the hills and as strong as the sea. I've been given something for a while, and the price of it is that I have to give it back. - Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
5. But what, without the social thought of thee, / Would be the wonders of the sky and sea? - John Keats, "Sonnet I. To My Brother George"
6. I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea. - Friedrich Nietzsche
7. It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
8. I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought. - Helen Keller
9. Blue has no dimensions. All colors bring forth associations of concrete, material, and tangible ideas, while blue evokes all the more the sea and the sky, which are what is most abstract in tangible and visible nature - Yves Klein
10. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. - Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

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Made by starphotographs

Theme: Literary

1. Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes.
2. Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.
3. It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.
4. Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.
5. Out of the blue, beyond any cause you can trace, you'll suddenly realize things are not how you perceived them to be at all. For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were.
6. ...And there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.
7. Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.
8. What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unmourned, well, you get the drift.
9. I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of something has always been and always will be you.
10. Beneath all that cool psuedo-academic hogwash lurked a very passionate man who knew how important it was to say "fuck" now and then.
11. Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding.
12. Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.
13. Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shifts which can in a matter of moments reconstitute a simple path into an extremely complicated one.
14. Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)
15. Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach; if you’ve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that you’ve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour.
16. Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason are concerned both claims are accurate.
17. I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. It’s probably not even real.
18. May I suggest you drink plenty of wine and dance in the sheets of your wedding night, because whether you know it or not, now you are truly prosperous.
19. Me feeling dumb and sad, a bit like a broken thermos- fine on the outside, but on the inside nothing but busted glass.
20. I will become, have become, a creature unstirred by history, no longer moved by the present, just hungry, blind and at long last filled of mindless wrath.

Made by shipwreck_light

Theme: Quotations

1. Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
2. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
3. Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
4. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
5. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
6. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
7. Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
8. The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
9. There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
10. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
11. There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
12. The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
13. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
14. There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each.
15. I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

by Anais Nin

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