Fictional Moderator
- A plea.
Please stop entering Harry Potter excerpts, Bible passages or otherwise moody, self-indulgent confessional ramblings. They are boring. You are most certainly the only one that finds them interesting. Really, they're a waste of everyone else's time. This is not a YA fan resource. This is not a forum to explore or express your faith, or, alternatively, to share how tortured by life you are. Post it on Facebook or something. This is not your diary.
Joseph Campbell
- Crossing the first threshold
The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.
e.e. cummings
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
Carson McCullers
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
