Jean Aspen Quotes

Happiness, I thought, is a discipline as well as an occasional gift.

I ended up choosing a t-shirt and jeans. So many of the vampires in Crestfire Hill dressed like they were in a Victorian period drama. Several of them still wore cloaks.  It irritated them when I wore casual clothes, which made me want to do it even more.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Aspen frowns with his golden brows that are almost too bushy to be called brows. More like eyelid mustaches.

Wood Music: A Playlist Foals, ‘Birch Tree’, 2015 Arnold Bax, November Woods, 1917 The Beatles, ‘Norwegian Wood’, 1965 Igor Stravinsky, ‘Berceuse’, from The Firebird, 1910 A Woodland Reading List William Boyce and David Garrick, ‘Heart of Oak’, 1760 George Butterworth, The Banks of Green Willow, 1913 ——, ‘Loveliest of Trees’, from ‘A Shropshire Lad’, 1911 Editors, ‘I Want a Forest’, 2009 Edward Elgar, String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83, 1919 ——, Quintet in A minor, Op., 84, 1918 ——, Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, 1919 ——, Owls: An Epitaph, Op. 27, 1907 Keane, ‘Somewhere Only We Know’, 2004 Lindisfarne, Dingly Dell, 1972 Oasis, ‘Songbird’, 2002 Pink Floyd, ‘Careful with That Axe, Eugene’, 1969 Camille Saint-Saëns, ‘Le Coucou au Fond des Bois’ (‘The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Wood’), 1886 Pablo Casals, ‘El Cant dels Ocells’ (‘Song of the Birds’), 1961 Antonín Dvořák, Waldesruhe (‘Silent Woods’) for cello and orchestra, Op. 68, no. 5, 1894 Edvard Grieg, Lyric Pieces, Op. 43, no. 4, ‘Little Bird’, 1886 Franz Liszt, Legende S.175 no. 1, St Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds, 1863 Monty Python, ‘The Lumberjack Song’, 1975 Van Morrison, ‘Redwood Tree’, 1972 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ‘Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja’ (‘The Bird- catcher, that’s me’), from Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), 1791 George Perlman, ‘A Birdling Sings’, from ‘Ghetto Sketches’, 1931 Pulp, ‘The Trees’, 2001 Radiohead, King of Limbs, 2011 Robert Schumann, ‘Jäger auf der Lauer’ (‘Hunters on the Lookout’), from Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82, no. 2, 1850–51 ——, ‘Freundliche Landschaft’ (‘Friendly Landscape’), from Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82, no. 5, 1850–51 Jean Sibelius, ‘The Aspen’, no. 3, ‘The Birch’, no. 4, ‘The Spruce’, no. 5, from Op. 75, ‘The Trees’, 1914–19 Trad., ‘The Trees They Do Grow High’ ——, ‘The Willow Tree’ The Verve, ‘Sonnet’, from Urban Hymns, 1997 Paul Weller, ‘Wild Wood’, 1993