Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed...
Isobelle CarmodyIf she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.
Isobelle CarmodyTag: afraid
Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.
Isobelle CarmodyTag: reflection monster
If human lives be,
for their very brevity, sweet,
then beast lives are sweeter still...
Tag: cats pets dogs-and-cats
The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.
Isobelle CarmodyIt is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.
Isobelle CarmodySometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.
Isobelle CarmodyWe were passing the city cemetery. Adjoining it was a field occupied only by a couple of amiable and moth-eaten horses, and a grey tower. I asked what the tower was for. My grandfather answered that it held a giant’s arm.
Isobelle CarmodyIt is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point.
Isobelle CarmodyThe short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
Isobelle CarmodyTag: short-stories
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