Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald

“A spirit . . . The undulating and silent well / And rippling rivulet, and evening gloom,

Now deepening the dark shades, for speech assuming / Held commune with him; as if he and it / Were all that was.” Shelley’s Alastor qtd. p. 1

"...Burnished by the moon." p. 8

Calceolaria p.30 also called lady's purse, slipper flower and pocketbook flower or slipperwort, is a genus of plants in the family Calceolariaceae Source

"...Deeper insatiableness" p.79

Earth drew me toward her p. 69 "

Faerie Romance p.9 "forsaking their fixed form, became fluent as the waters."

"Gush of wonderment and longing flowed over my soul like the tide of a great sea." p. 90

"...Harmony could not exist, except they all consented to some one end!" p. 56

"I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more / But live, and help, and pain , beautiful one, have made thee mine, til all my years are done." p. 49 "I am a part of the part, which at first was the whole.” p.92
          Goethe's Mephistopheles in Faust

Julie sent me this lovely painting

 a thank you for sunrises and sunsets :)

"Kissed me with the sweetest kiss of winds and odours. There was a cool faithfulness in the kiss that revived my heart wonderfully." p. 47

"Lovers parted for long, and meeting at last; with a gorgeous summer night to close up the whole." p.75

“Must his shadow find him some day?” But I could not answer my own questions. p. 103

"...Notwithstanding that, in doing so, I left the light behind." p. 120

Old cover - 1894  2019 cover

"Perplexities of the mind which accompanies the return of consciousness. " p.1

"Quest that must end with the ultimate surrender of self."

 "Rippling with joy when experienced 

"She knew something too good to be told."

"This is what we call an “elevated” style, meaning it is higher than the usual, or real speech, of people. Shakespeare used it in his plays just as poets used it in their rhymes. It is not meant to be realistic. It is meant to be better, richer, more glorious than what we lowly humans actually speak." source

"Undulating, like a serpent of sound, along the walls and roof of this superb music-hall.

“Vain thy plan / All that interests a man, is man.” ~ Henry Sutton qtd. Chapter III

"Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality?" p.114

eXcitement in the woods

"...Yet is it a little window, that looketh upon a great world.” cover page

pale half-moon, halfway to the Zenith, was reviving every moment.