We all have our helpers in seen and unseen realms

We all have helpers in seen and unseen realms.
Give them something to do.
Otherwise, they will grow inattentive with boredom.
They can clean junk from your mind,
Find the opening note for the chorus of a song,
Or give a grandchild a safe path through the dark.
They will not give you winning numbers at the casino,
Wash your dishes, or take out an enemy.
Thank them.
Feed them once in a while.

From ‘Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings’ by Native American Poet Laureate Joy Harjo

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And so I celebrate the end of the winter festivals because it promises not just the light returning but also that the darkness will come back to be illuminated by words. -- from 'Winter' by Val McDermid

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"At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn't even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive." - James, by Percival Everett

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Fanart/Bookquote combo from the second chapter of my story 😊

Let me know if you want a zoomed in version of Pentakl city 😁

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“For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.”

~ Henry Beston from his book The Outermost House

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https://notes.cliff538.com/2026/04/07/for-the-animal-shall-not.html

Damn, does any modern writer go harder than Daniel Handler?!

The three of us stood there for a minute. I don’t know what Stew was thinking, and the filing cabinet wasn’t thinking anything. But I was thinking, is this the world? Is this really the place in which you’ve ended up, Snicket? It was a question that struck me, as it might strike you, when something ridiculous was going on, or something sad. I wondered if this was really where I should be, or if there was another world someplace, less ridiculous and less sad. But I never knew the answer to the question. Perhaps I had been in another world before I was born, and did not remember it, or perhaps I would see another world when I died, which I was in no hurry to do. In the meantime I knew only the world I was in. In the meantime I was stuck in this police station, doing something so ridiculous it felt sad, and feeling so sad that it was ridiculous. The world of the police station, the world of Stain’d-by-the-Sea and all of the wrong questions I was asking, was the only world I could see.
— "When Did You See Her Last?" - All The Wrong Questions no.2 - Lemony Snicket / Art by Seth

"Sport is agony. We agree to suffer endlessly in exchange for the mere possibility of sublime rapture. Sometimes, we even get it."

-- Why We Love Baseball: A History In 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski
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I like to start my chapters with a quote, I know it's not uncommon, but I was wondering what people think about it as a reader? 🤔

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The Last Philosopher: https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA

"But the Earth is an unstable stone on which its occupants are planted. It must be tended with care, or else it will rebel. Our rock tells us when it’s hurt or yearning, and we must listen. Otherwise, one morning we may find it no longer wants to revolve." -- from 'The Archive of Alternate Endings' by Lindsey Drager

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"Of course, they didn’t get that staring at flowers is a form of being busy. That watching the flow of the clouds is an important activity. That in a period of depression and fear, to think about beautiful things, your dreams and wishes, and to smile is highly, highly important, a vital task." -- from 'The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen' by Shokoofeh Azar (the translator is anonymous for security reasons)

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