{"quotes":[{"text":"Yet the experience of reading a novel has certain qualities that remind us of the traditional apprehension of mythology. It can be seen as a form of meditation. Readers have to live with a novel for days or even weeks. It projects them into another world, parallel to but apart from their ordinary lives. They know perfectly well that this fictional realm is not 'real' and yet while they are reading it becomes compelling. A powerful novel becomes part of the backdrop of our lives, long after we have laid the book aside.","author":"Karen Armstrong","tags":["books","mythology","reading"],"id":1714,"author_id":"Karen+Armstrong"},{"text":"Bah, he still saw the same stupidity. The image of the hanged man in the farming community of Yondern flashed through his mind. Now there was a war brewing between the Steelwielders and some foreign religion. More mindless loss over beliefs and mythology. But.. He could not deny the noble features in his companions. Although Perfidian was too blithe and Elaina too didactic, they had risked their life to do what was right. He did owe them his life. He could not deny the nobility he saw in many different people, bits and pieces of nobility that shined through under pressure. The guards who risked their lives to protect the villagers, Markham who flew at the dangerous dwarf, swords flashing; even an Eruthian merchant who stopped in his journey to share tales with complete strangers'.","author":"T.P. Grish","tags":["dark-fantasy","fantasy","indie-","low-magic","magick-and-faith","mythology","quote","self-published","steel","t-p-grish"],"id":2053,"author_id":"T.P.+Grish"},{"text":"Linear brains can't curve a thought.","author":"douglas m laurent","tags":["art","history","literature","martial-art-poetry","mythology","philosophy"],"id":4781,"author_id":"douglas+m+laurent"},{"text":"She knew him as much as the knowing of her own heart’s secret: she was destined for the forest.","author":"Lori J. Fitzgerald","tags":["folklore","magic","mythology","tylwyth-teg","ya"],"id":5199,"author_id":"Lori+J.+Fitzgerald"},{"text":"Paris and HelenHe called her: golden dawnShe called him: the wind whistlesHe called her: heart of the skyShe called him: message bringerHe called her: mother of pearl barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weefShe called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider keeper of forests, my-love-ridesHe called her: the tree isShe called him: bird dancingHe called her: who stands, has stood, will always standShe called him: arriverHe called her: the heart and the womb are similarShe called him: arrow in my heart.","author":"Judy Grahn","tags":["mythology","poetry"],"id":6628,"author_id":"Judy+Grahn"},{"text":"Mental discipline, prayer and remoteness from the world and its disturbing visions reduce temptation to a minimum, but they can never entirely abolish it. In medieval traditions, abbeys and convents were always considered to be expugnable centres of revolt against infernal dominion on earth. They became, accordingly, special targets. Satan, issuing orders at nightfall to his foul precurrers, was rumoured to dispatch to capital cities only one junior fiend. This solitary demon, the legend continues, sleeps at his post. There is no work for him; the battle was long ago won. But monasteries, those scattered danger points, become the chief objectives of nocturnal flight; the sky fills with the beat of sable wings as phalanx after phalanx streams to the attack, and the darkness crepitates with the splintering of a myriad lances against the masonry of asceticism.","author":"Patrick Leigh Fermor","tags":["asceticism","masochism","monastic-life","mythology"],"id":6789,"author_id":"Patrick+Leigh+Fermor"},{"text":"He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.","author":"Madeline Miller","tags":["mythology","war"],"id":7289,"author_id":"Madeline+Miller"},{"text":"'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.","author":"Peter Jackson","tags":["world","small","mythology "],"id":7359,"author_id":"Peter+Jackson"},{"text":"I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is a genre that can tell an entertaining and enthralling story on the surface, and yet deliver a potent message underneath, where everything becomes a symbol of something greater.","author":"Dean F. Wilson","tags":["entertainment","fantasy","humanity","mythology","symbolism"],"id":7999,"author_id":"Dean+F.+Wilson"},{"text":"Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past. It must be dreamed again.","author":"Assotto Saint","tags":["haiti","haitian-dyaspora","mythology"],"id":9209,"author_id":"Assotto+Saint"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":555,"pages":56,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}