Quote of the Day

[alanajoli]

"You remember the fairy stories you were told when you were very small--'once upon a time . . .' Why do you think they always began like that?"
"Because they weren't true," Simon said promptly.
Jane said, caught up in the unreality of the high remote place, "Because perhaps they were true once, but nobody could remember when."
Great-Uncle Merry turned his head and smiled at her. "That's right. Once upon a time . . . a long time ago . . . things that happened once, perhaps, but have been talked about for so long that nobody really knows. And underneath all the bits that people have added, the magic swords and lamps, they're all about one thing--the good hero fighting the giant, or the witch, or the wicked uncle. Good against bad. Good against evil."

From Over Sea Under Stone by Susan Cooper

Comments

[bccreations.livejournal.com]

I just reread those books earlier this year!

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

I only ever read the first two as a child, and I don't remember them at all. It was a joy to finish the first one this morning!

[bccreations.livejournal.com]

The Grey King is my favorite. I also liked seeing the progression of Will Stanton from his character in The Dark is Rising to Greenwich and then Grey King. That book made me want to go to Wales! :)

[antonstrout.livejournal.com]

geesh when I started reading it, my heart skipped a beat because I saw there was a Simon & Jane speaking and my two main characters are Simon and Jane.. but then I was fine...

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

Ha! Were you subconsciously inspired by Susan Cooper?

[antonstrout.livejournal.com]

perhaps psychically subconciously as I've never read her...

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

Wow! I wish I had a psychic subconscious... ;)

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

Hey! You're a future psychic!

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'd forgotten that one. Yay OotS!

What's your shield, by the way?

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

CoL emblem pasted onto a shield of the Knights of St. John (if I recall correctly) with the cross cleverly Gimped out (actually, probably GraphicConverted—all I know for sure is that it wasn't PhotoShop). 'Tis my gamer-geek icon. :-)

[eyezofwolf.livejournal.com]

When I first started reading that, I thought it was going to be a Firefly quote and was trying to figure out what the quote was from!

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... now I'm going to have to find a Joss Whedon quote about the nature of fairy tales or mythology. He certainly has them sprinkled throughout.

The best I could think of from Firefly would be "We live on a spaceship, dear," which is neither mythological nor about fairy tales, but it is about the nature of science fiction....

[dragonladyflame.livejournal.com]

Did you hear about the movie? The previews made me want to cry.

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

*shudder* I'm trying not to think about it. We'll probably go see it, if only to see just how drastically they've changed the story.

Every time I see the trailer, I think it's for another story--there's a book about a kid who can see an invisible world and change things (which I've not read, only reviews, which is why I can't remember the title). At any rate, both times I've seen the trailer, I've thought, "Oh, neat, they're making a movie about that book I can't remember... wait a second!"