Titania Quotes

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Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania
William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Nights Dream)
Sanity’s overated, my darling.
Richelle Mead (Silver Shadows (Bloodlines, #5))
I ached for him, my stomach twisting painfully. He looked so desolate standing there alone facing a mad queen and several thousand angry fey. His voice was flat and resigned, as if he'd been pushed into a corner and had given up, not caring what happened next.
Julie Kagawa (The Iron Daughter (The Iron Fey, #2))
As she sustained wound after wound...the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.
Hiro Mashima
Enough.” Titania rose and stabbed a glare of pure poison at me. “We do not need the half-breed, husband. Send her back to the mortal world she is so fond of.” “Sit down. I wasn't finished.
Julie Kagawa (The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, #3))
Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.
William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Children of Maeve reproducing with children of Titania wasn’t like apples mixing with oranges—it was more like apples mixing with cheese graters, or rainbows with hardware stores.
Seanan McGuire (A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9))
If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder. "I've tried to burn you similarly," it said, "but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.
Chris Adrian (The Great Night)
When in that moment,—so it came to pass,— Titania wak'd, and straightway lov'd an ass.
William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
You died here," I said quietly. "October -" "I wasn't here, and the girl I'm supposed to be finding was, and you died ." I looked up at him, glaring through the tears in my eyes. I left my fingers balanced on the floor, letting his blood sing its song of pain and longing. Longing to live; refusal to let go of the world. Maybe that's what differentiates the Kings and Queens of Cats from the rest of Faerie. They have a cat's stubbornness and the power to back it up. So when death says, "Go," they just refuse. My heart hurt. My heart hurt so badly, and I was still trying to recover from Connor, and oh, Titania, I couldn't do this again. The thought startled me. I froze where I was, still glaring. Tybalt sighed. "I know." he hesitated before adding, "This is not the time, and this is not the place, and my nephew needs us. But I ask you to consider this. I got better. I will always get better." He hesitated again - possibly the first time I'd ever seen him pause more than once after he'd decided he was going to say something. Finally, he said, "Some of us, October, will not leave you.
Seanan McGuire (Ashes of Honor (October Daye, #6))
Take every opportunity to resist the plague of cultural appropriation. Racial boundaries must be strictly policed. Unlike gender, which is totally fluid.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
So," she said at last, her voice dripping poisoned icicles, "this is Oberon's little bastard." -Queen Titania
The Iron King (The Iron Fey, #1)
If you don’t want to be censored, don’t say the wrong things. It really is that simple.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
I am what I am, and what I am is what I am. I have a will to be what I am, and what I will be is only what I am. If I have a will to be, I will to be no more than what I was. If I was what I am willed to be, yet they ever will be wondering what I am or what I ever was. I want to change the Wall, and make my will.
Titania Hardie (Rose Labyrinth)
I had been breastfed for the first six months of my life. Did my mother not realise that I was a vegan? Did she even care? Either way, this was abuse.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Before I was even out of the crib I was self-harming with my nappy pin. By the age of four, I was suffering from both anorexia and chronic overeating. When these two conditions occur simultaneously it can be difficult to spot, because the victim ends up eating a regular amount of food on a consistent basis.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
I have a will to be what I am, and what I will be is only what I am
Titania Hardie
For those who don’t know, ‘Antifa’ is an abbreviation of ‘antifascist’, which means they’re allowed to punch people in the name of tolerance.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
In any case, if it is true that men are superior at sports, why is it that transgender athletes tend to win more medals after they transition to female?
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.
Titania Hardie (Rose Labyrinth)
As far as I’m concerned, you’re not entitled to call yourself a feminist if you haven’t been out marching for rights you already have while dressed as a massive cunt.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Imagine thinking that free speech meant that people can say whatever they want, whenever they want. That’s exactly how Nazi Germany started.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
When women are valued more than men, then and only then will we have achieved true equality.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
And say what you will about ISIS, but at least they're not Islamophobic.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
The only bad thing about e-books is that you can’t burn them if they’re offensive.
Titania McGrath
There’s a simple formula. If it entertains, it’s entertainment. If it offends, it’s hate speech. It’s up to the woke elite to supervise the boundaries. Join us.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Males will often cite pseudo-scientific fields of study such as ‘biology’, ‘medicine’ or ‘endocrinology’ to prove that men are the physically stronger sex, although you’d be hard pushed to find a respectable feminist who takes any of this seriously.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Revelry isn't just the debauched pursuit of mindless, excessive--and often cruel-- pleasures as King Oberon and Titania have turned it into. It is supposed to be a place of art. No matter how seemingly frivolous, art can give a laugh, a light, a spark of pleasure relieves sorrow and uplifts the soul. It can tell truths and reach hearts better than dry, pedantic tomes. That's the true purpose of the Court of Revels.
Tara Grayce (Stolen Midsummer Bride (Stolen Brides of the Fae, #3))
Ihave words of wisdom for all young girls. No matter what you do in life, or how much you achieve, you will always be victims of the patriarchy. Understanding this is the key to your empowerment.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
There's no more damage to be done," she said, in a faint, almost thoughtful voice. "No more damage, no salvation. One more of Faerie's glorious monsters lost." "If you'd left us alone--" I began. "You'd have sent some hero after me, given time enough. I killed, I die. At least I killed like a monster kills, instead of with iron, and dying by inches. That's Titania's way, the Queen who stands in the darkness and screams about her light.
Seanan McGuire (Late Eclipses (October Daye, #4))
On this matter, I highly recommend Robin DiA ngelo’s scintillating book White Fragility. If you’ve ever wondered why honkies get so uppity when you call them racist without any apparent justification, this is the book for you.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
By the time this book is published, I am confident that there will have been a second referendum. After all, only 1,269,501 more people voted to Leave than to Remain. No serious mathematician would consider that any kind of ‘majority’.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
I use the term ‘POC’ because it is a convenient way to group all non-whites together without having to go to the trouble of identifying their differences. Needless to say, this is particularly helpful when it comes to oriental countries like Japan, China and Siam, whose citizens are pretty much indistinguishable.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
To give a tangible example of our achievements, consider how the definition of the word ‘Nazi’ has been successfully broadened to include anyone who voted for Brexit, has ever considered supporting the Conservative Party or who refuses to take the Guardian seriously. Although this is a great victory for the progressive cause, it does mean that there are now more Nazis living in modern Britain than even existed in 1930s Germany.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Cultural appropriation is the principal signifier of white privilege. ‘All white people,’ states Guardian columnist Lola Okolosie, are implicated ‘in white supremacy’. In other words, literally every white person you have ever met is a racist. It stands to reason.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
We need to challenge the lazy assumption that people aren't racist just because they don't say or do racist things.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Twitter in particular is a cesspit of the far right. It’s got to the point where if someone doesn’t have ‘antifascist’ in their bio, it’s safest to assume that they’re a fascist.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
If Luke Skywalker had been cast as an aborigine back in 1977, racism would have been eliminated by now.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct than about being morally right. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Nuestros dos corazones son uno. Mi alfa y mi omega. Mi principio y mi fin”.
Titania Hardie (Rose Labyrinth)
Cada uno tenemos nuestra forma particular de lidiar con nuestros demonios. A mí me encantaría matar a los tuyos, pero prefiero estar a tu lado cuando lo hagas tú.
Abril Camino (Mi mundo en tus ojos (Titania fresh) (Spanish Edition))
They get caught up in right and wrong. Or right and left. But none of that stuff matters if people aren’t free.” Titania
Jim Butcher (Cold Days (The Dresden Files, #14))
Titania waked, and straightway loved an ass.
William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
once asked Titania if I might wear pants to a midnight dance, and she gave no reply but the bell song of her laugh.
Dahlia Adler (That Way Madness Lies: 15 of Shakespeare's Most Notable Works Reimagined)
Oberon: Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania. Titania: What, jealous Oberon! - Fairies, skip hence: I have forsworn his bed and his company.
William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
TITANIA (waking) What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream (No Fear Shakespeare))
Why should Titania cross her Oberon? 120I do but beg a little changeling boy To be my henchman.
William Shakespeare (Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Made Easy))
A truth was brought home to Alex that he'd considered many times, but never in so personal a way: there were people in the world who had just enough religion to hate, but not enough religion to love.
Titania Hardie (Rose Labyrinth)
Recently, police in the UK have been petitioning the general public to ‘report non-crime hate incidents’, which would incorporate ‘offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing’. In this new woke era, our law enforcement agencies are not content to police crime, but also non-crime. This is a huge relief, because for a long while now too many citizens have been not breaking the law and getting away with it.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
More recently, Labour MP Dawn Butler took umbrage at a new brand of ‘jerk rice’ that had been marketed by television chef Jamie Oliver. ‘Your jerk rice is not ok,’ Butler tweeted. ‘This appropriation from Jamaica needs to stop.’ For me, angry tweets addressed to celebrity chefs are what being a Member of Parliament is all about.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
We all know how romantic entanglements with males can go. One minute he’s inviting you into his home for an innocent cup of coffee, the next you’re at the bottom of a well in his basement applying copious quantities of lotion.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Over the past few years I have become a formidable presence on the live slam-poetry scene. For those of you who are unfamiliar with slam, it’s like regular poetry but with extra pauses. And there’s usually a lactose-free buffet at the end.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Men are trained from birth to disregard the desires of women. Come to think of it, the process is initiated long before that. All males begin their lives within the bodies of their mothers. They are literally inside a woman without her verbal consent. I cannot put this explicitly enough. The very first thing a male does in his life is to rape his own mother.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
So I brought them into the room with the bodies and I was all, Let me introduce you to … Ulysses. Let me introduce you to … Titania. He thought about it and added, I better say that it was Titania from Midsummer, Shakespeare, but Ulysses was for a dog my nana had when I was a child. I worshipped that dog. He was the bravest dog I’d ever met. Half Chihuahua, half pug. Nan called him Ulysses S. Grunt. Died from eating too much pizza. The dog, I mean. Nan died of pneumonia when I was a teenager.
Tamsyn Muir (Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3))
Shakespeare was the third born to his parents, but the first to survive infancy. Four of his siblings died young. His son, Hamnet, died at eleven and left behind a twin. Plague closed the theaters again and again, death flickering over the landscape. And now in a twilight once more lit by candles, the age of electricity having come and gone, Titania turns to face her fairy king. “Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, pale in her anger, washes all the air, that rheumatic diseases do abound.
Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven)
But, as Margaret half suspected, Edith had fallen asleep. She lay curled up on the sofa in the back drawing-room in Harley Street, looking very lovely in her white muslin and blue ribbons. If Titania had ever been dressed in white muslin and blue ribbons, and had fallen asleep on a crimson damask sofa in a back drawing-room, Edith might have been taken for her. Margaret was struck afresh by her cousin's beauty. They had grown up together from childhood, and all along Edith had been remarked upon by every one, except Margaret, for her prettiness; but Margaret had never thought about it until the last few days, when the prospect of soon losing her companion seemed to give force to every sweet quality and charm which Edith possessed. They had been talking about wedding dresses, and wedding ceremonies; and Captain Lennox, and what he had told Edith about her future life at Corfu, where his regiment was stationed; and the difficulty of keeping a piano in good tune (a difficulty which Edith seemed to consider as one of the most formidable that could befall her in her married life), and what gowns she should want in the visits to Scotland, which would immediately succeed her marriage; but the whispered tone had latterly become more drowsy; and Margaret, after a pause of a few minutes, found, as she fancied, that in spite of the buzz in the next room, Edith had rolled herself up into a soft ball of muslin and ribbon, and silken curls, and gone off into a peaceful little after-dinner nap.
Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South)
As the last dish of confections was removed a weird pageant swept across the further end of the banqueting-room: Oberon and Titania with Robin Goodfellow and the rest, attired in silks and satins gorgeous of hue, and bedizened with such late flowers as were still with us. I leaned forward to commend, and saw that each face was brown and wizened and thin-haired: so that their motions and their wedding paean felt goblin and discomforting; nor could I smile till they departed by the further door. ("The Basilisk")
R. Murray Gilchrist (Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror)
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.
William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated. Perhaps the love is occasionally on the man's side; perhaps on the lady's. Perhaps some infatuated swain has ere this mistaken insensibility for modesty, dulness for maiden reserve, mere vacuity for sweet bashfulness, and a goose, in a word, for a swan. Perhaps some beloved female subscriber has arrayed an ass in the splendour and glory of her imagination; admired his dulness as manly simplicity; worshipped his selfishness as manly superiority; treated his stupidity as majestic gravity, and used him as the brilliant fairy Titania did a certain weaver at Athens. I think I have seen such comedies of errors going on in the world. Chapter 13
William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair)
I voted for Jeremy Corbyn reluctantly, because as an intersectionalist I would have preferred a black lesbian in the role. But there’s always the possibility that Corbyn might transition at a later date, or that Diane Abbott might assume the Labour Party leadership and develop a taste for flange.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Titania! Was the Hagans’ rout not a mad crush? Much better than the theater, which I attended the night before. Very dull, and whoever told that playwright he could tell a story must have been a doting aunt, there is no other explanation. Such nonsense.” “What play was it?” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Megan Frampton (A Singular Lady)
Plague closed the theaters again and again, death flickering over the landscape. And now in a twilight once more lit by candles, the age of electricity having come and gone, Titania turns to face her fairy king. “Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, pale in her anger, washes all the air, that rheumatic diseases do abound.
Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven)
One of the unwritten rules of a democracy is that referendums can be overturned if a sufficient number of rich celebrities demand it.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
The day my intersectional feminist poetry earns me as much as a male banker is the day the gender pay gap can be declared a myth.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
But many activists criticised the march, pointing out that it focused largely on cisgender white women. ‘What about African-American women with penises?
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
That’s the wonderful thing about identity politics; you never have to explain yourself, or even develop your thoughts into what right-wingers call a ‘coherent argument’.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
You can still be homeless and have white privilege. Munroe Bergdorf
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Let us not forget that white supremacy comes in many forms, and often it can insinuate itself into our culture through microwavable ready-meals.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Horses are a social construct.
Titania McGrath
On the other hand, as screenwriter Daisy Goodwin has pointed out, by depicting women in powerful roles producers are guilty of ‘airbrushing reality’. I would therefore like to see more shows in which women are depicted as powerful in order to send a positive message, but simultaneously depicted as weak in order to reflect the ways in which women are oppressed in society.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
I am a teller of truths, a slayer of patriarchs, a fearless metaphysician. I teabag the foes of justice with a gender-neutral scrotum. I suckle the babes of hope with my sinewy teats of equality.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
—Deja de eludir mi pregunta. ¿Por qué me has besado? Bruno le dio la espalda, sus manos se aferraron a la verja y el chico contestó con la mitad de la verdad: —Quería ver tu alma. Fue todo cuanto dijo, no confesó lo mucho que necesitaba besarla, ni lo mucho que le había gustado descubrir que sabía a tarta de queso con arándanos, agridulce como lamer una herida y adictiva como las noches de verano en la corte de Titania.
Mara Oliver (Osculos oscuros, besos voraces)
As a millennial icon on the forefront of online activism, I am uniquely placed to guide you through the often bewildering array of concepts that constitute contemporary ‘wokeness’. To put it bluntly, I am a much better person than you.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Be kind and corteous to this gentleman; Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen tights, And light them at the fiery glow-worm’s eyes, To have my love to bed and to arise; And pluck the wings from painted butterflies, To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes. Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.
William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
In a sense, one’s internet presence is one’s true personality. Old-fashioned ‘face-to-face’ conversation is all very well, but the best way to debate serious political issues is surely through an online forum in which you won’t have to deal with the potential intimidation that comes with actual human contact, and thoughts need not be developed beyond a 280-character limit. In addition, it’s important to be able to block people who disagree with you to avoid being triggered by challenging opinions.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Thankfully, Silicon Valley tech giants have a commendable record of banning users who have problematic opinions, or engage in ‘satire’. And it’s not as though there has been a lack of transparency. YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have made it explicitly clear which opinions you are allowed to have. If you don’t want to be censored, don’t say the wrong things. It really is that simple.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
The word ‘woman’ comes from the Old English for ‘female human’, whereas ‘man’ simply means ‘human’. Linguistically speaking, this implies that women are deviants from the norm. In order to rectify this, I sometimes refer to men as ‘unwomen’, and boys as ‘ungirls’. I likewise often refer to straight people as ‘ungays’, so that they too can understand what it feels like to be othered.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Be kind and corteous to this gentleman; Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyews; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen tights, And light them at the fiery glow-worm’s eyes, To have my love to bed and to arise; And pluck the wings from painted butterflies, To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes. Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.
William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Many have argued that Obama’s legacy is tainted by the fact that on his watch the Democratic Party haemorrhaged support to the Republicans, that he enabled policies of illegal domestic surveillance, doubled the national debt, allowed millions of citizens to fall below the poverty line and was guilty of reckless interventionism in foreign disputes. What these critics forget is that Obama was mixed race, and all of these flaws can be attributed to his white side. If he had been fully black, his legacy would have been irreproachable.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
Confiding Julie, the first to get breasts, was cynical by Thanksgiving. Since no one else looked like the class slut, she was given the position, and she soon capitulated. She bleached her hair with Sun In, and started to mess around with boys who played in garage rock bands. Marianne, because she had long legs and a stem neck, rushed from school to her pliés at the barre, her hair in a bun, her head held high, to arch and sweep and bow toward the mirror until night fell. Cara delivered her audition piece flat, but since she had a wheat-colored rope of braid that brushed her waist, she would be Titania in the school play. Emily, bluntnosed and loud, could outact Cara in her sleep; when she saw the cast list she turned silently to her best friend, who handed her a box of milk chocolate creams. Tall, strong, bony Evvy watched Elise try out her maddening dimple. She cornered her outside class to ask her if she thought she was cute. Elise said yes, and Evvy threw a pipette of acid, stolen from the biology lab, in her face. Dodie hated her tight black hair that wouldn’t grow. She crept up behind blond Karen in home ec class and hacked out a fistful with pinking shears. Even Karen understood that it wasn’t personal.
Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth)
Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, as in revenge, have sucked up from the sea contagious fogs.…” Pestilential, a note in the text explains, next to the word contagious, in Kirsten’s favorite of the three versions of the text that the Symphony carries. Shakespeare was the third born to his parents, but the first to survive infancy. Four of his siblings died young. His son, Hamnet, died at eleven and left behind a twin. Plague closed the theaters again and again, death flickering over the landscape. And now in a twilight once more lit by candles, the age of electricity having come and gone, Titania turns to face her fairy king. “Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, pale in her anger, washes all the air, that rheumatic diseases do abound.” Oberon watches her with his entourage of fairies. Titania speaks as if to herself now, Oberon forgotten. Her voice carries high and clear over the silent audience, over the string section waiting for their cue on stage left. “And through this distemperature, we see the seasons alter.” All three caravans of the Traveling Symphony are labeled as such, THE TRAVELING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient.
Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven)
The ubiquity of racism is an idea echoed by one of my favourite writers, Afua Hirsch, in her book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging. Above all, I admire Hirsch’s tenacity, because even though she comes from an extremely wealthy family, was privately educated, enjoyed an idyllic childhood complete with ‘berry-stained rambles on Wimbledon Common’ and ‘walking holidays in the Alps’, she is still able to see past all that to realise that she is every bit as subjugated as those individuals who were bought and sold during the era of slavery. She is also brave enough to call out the obvious racism of anyone who gave her book a bad review.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
JEANNE ENDORMIE. -- I LA SIESTE Elle fait au milieu du jour son petit somme; Car l'enfant a besoin du rêve plus que l'homme, Cette terre est si laide alors qu'on vient du ciel ! L'enfant cherche à revoir Chérubin, Ariel, Ses camarades, Puck, Titania, les fées, Et ses mains quand il dort sont par Dieu réchauffées. Oh ! comme nous serions surpris si nous voyions, Au fond de ce sommeil sacré, plein de rayons, Ces paradis ouverts dans l'ombre, et ces passages D'étoiles qui font signe aux enfants d'être sages, Ces apparitions, ces éblouissements ! Donc, à l'heure où les feux du soleil sont calmants, Quand toute la nature écoute et se recueille, Vers midi, quand les nids se taisent, quand la feuille La plus tremblante oublie un instant de frémir, Jeanne a cette habitude aimable de dormir; Et la mère un moment respire et se repose, Car on se lasse, même à servir une rose. Ses beaux petits pieds nus dont le pas est peu sûr Dorment; et son berceau, qu'entoure un vague azur Ainsi qu'une auréole entoure une immortelle, Semble un nuage fait avec de la dentelle; On croit, en la voyant dans ce frais berceau-là, Voir une lueur rose au fond d'un falbala; On la contemple, on rit, on sent fuir la tristesse, Et c'est un astre, ayant de plus la petitesse; L'ombre, amoureuse d'elle, a l'air de l'adorer; Le vent retient son souffle et n'ose respirer. Soudain, dans l'humble et chaste alcôve maternelle, Versant tout le matin qu'elle a dans sa prunelle, Elle ouvre la paupière, étend un bras charmant, Agite un pied, puis l'autre, et, si divinement Que des fronts dans l'azur se penchent pour l'entendre, Elle gazouille...-Alors, de sa voix la plus tendre, Couvrant des yeux l'enfant que Dieu fait rayonner, Cherchant le plus doux nom qu'elle puisse donner À sa joie, à son ange en fleur, à sa chimère: -Te voilà réveillée, horreur ! lui dit sa mère.
Victor Hugo (L'Art d'être grand-père)
OUR TWO SOULS THEREFORE All that was ablaze in the Field of Flowers! Pluck forth a bloom, and think on what has been; on centuries of betrayal, and pain, and misunderstanding... I am what I am, and what I am is what I am. I have a will to be what I am, and what I will be is only what I am. If I have a will to be, I will to be no more than what I was. If I was I am willed to be, yet they ever will be wondering what I am or what I ever was. I want to change the Wall, and make my Will. That I am that same wall, the truth is so. And this the cranny is, right and sinister, Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper. Each pair adds up to every jointed piece; the bottom left is a square; bottom right is a square; top left is a square; top right is a square. The heart is a square too. WHICH ARE ONE And I am halfway through the orbit. And if you take half of the whole and make up pairs to equal me, you will soon use up all of the pairs. Now, look no further than the day. My alpha and my omega. Make of these two halves a whole. Take the song of equal number in the old king's book. Equal number of paces forward from the start. Equal number of paces backwards from the end - omitting only the single exit word. Amen to that. I am what I am, and what I am is what you will see. Count on me very carefully. ENDURE NOT YET A BREACH, BUT AN EXPANSION
Titania Hardie
better anyway—after puncturing his heart, she could cut off his balls. Heaving a sigh, Gigi set the knife aside and put the slice of toast down. There was no telling how old the bread was. Her sister Titania wasn’t
Kate Perry (Let's Misbehave (Summerhill, #3))
Live and let live. Love thyself, in order to love thy man. Smart, independent women attract men.
Titania Hudson
Summer estaba en lo cierto, después de todo: sería una increíble Titania. Si lo consigue ella, ¿a mí qué? Podría ser un Duende mejor, y eso podría ser más divertido de todos modos. Parezco una malvada andrógina ahora, con mi cabello corto. Probablemente sería un estupendo Duende, en realidad, ahora que lo pienso. ¿Quién dice que tengo que ser la Reina de las Hadas?
Jody Gehrman (Babe in Boyland)
él me había conducido hasta mi verdadero amor. En la muerte, hizo posible que volviera a reunirme con ella.
Penelope Ward (Querido hermanastro (Titania fresh) (Spanish Edition))
Queste donne sono fuggite con me, capisci? Hanno deciso di dire addio alla loro vita di soprusi, di sofferenze e solitudine. Diventare piratesse per noi significa rinascere. È un'ideologia.
Titania Blesh (A colpi di Cannonau)
You're your father's son; there's no doubt about it. I know your grandfather is as proud of you as I am," she said inside his head. She gave him another tight squeeze before setting him down and stepping back. The crowd whistled and cheered and the sound of music rose above it all. Oseron was once again lifted onto the men's shoulders, along with Titania and Deston, and the dancers lead the procession back to Tir na-nÓg.
M.J. Bell (Before the Full Moon Rises)
As an adherent of the Religion of Peace™ and one of the world’s leading austere religious scholars, Abū believed in acts of peaceful genocide and austere executions, as well as keeping sex slaves in an austere and peaceful way.
Titania McGrath (My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism)
Bigot’ is another useful word. It is defined as ‘a person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions’, so I tend to use it against anyone who has the audacity to disagree with me.
Titania McGrath (My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism)
It's so distressing when those of us who seek to cultivate a society in which love and human kindness can flourish are misrepresented as being a bunch of sociopathic cunts.
Titania McGrath (My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism)
As the movement’s co-founder Stuart Basden wrote in a recent article, Extinction Rebellion is also about defeating white supremacy, the patriarchy, Eurocentrism, heteronormativity and class hierarchy. So if your parents claim that they find it too difficult to be green, tell them that they can still show their support by having gay sex with a few African peasants.
Titania McGrath (My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism)
La sostuvo un momento entre las manos antes de abrirla y contemplar la joya que descansaba sobre el interior de seda roja: un reloj de oro para colgar de la solapa, cuyo broche esmaltado representaba una figura feérica con alas de mariposa: la reina Titania desplegando su brillante majestuosidad sobre los mortales. La tapa del reloj tenía dos lirios grabados en plata y un diamante bordeado de rubíes en el centro. Al abrirla, podía leerse una inscripción: “Si dos corazones se juran amor, después ya no queda más que un corazón”.
Irenea Morales (Una visita inesperada)
I couldn’t arm wrestle an ogre, even with the mantle. I couldn’t have won a magical duel with Mab or Titania—probably not even against Maeve or Lily. I couldn’t outrun one of the Sidhe. But I could defy absolutely anyone. I could lift my will against that of anything, and know that the fight might be lopsided, but never hopeless.
Jim Butcher (Cold Days (The Dresden Files, #14))
Two Queens ruled Faerie, a kingdom divided between them. The elder was the Mebd, the Summer Queen. The younger was the Cat Anna, the Queen of Winter, the White Witch. There had been others, Queens and Kings of air and darkness, ghosts and shadows: Oonaugh, Titania, Oberon, Niamh, Finnvarra.
Elizabeth Bear (Blood and Iron (Promethean Age, #1))
Avoiding the Scylla of the nunnery, Hermia sails dangerously close to the Charybdis of Titania's lust for the ass-headed Bottom, but emerges safely, and somewhat more self-knowledgeably, into the orderly harbor of marriage.
Marjorie Garber (Coming of Age in Shakespeare)
As a person of mixed race, Bergdorf is a true victim. It is not her fault that she inadvertently gives the impression of being an irredeemably pampered cunt.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)
the Universe cartoons, with his rippling muscles and phallic sword, reeked of toxic masculinity.
Titania McGrath (Woke: A Guide to Social Justice)