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Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the solitude of a house that still vibrated with the throbs of a singular life that had helped shape many lives and with the ache of attempts to render useful service to that life. The River of Winged Dreams was therefore constructed as a link between dimensions of past and future emotions and intellect and matter and spirit.Aberjhani
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If you can show people how to build castles, make sure you do not neglect building and nurturing your own.Suzy Kassem
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People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.Israelmore Ayivor
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What’s not to love? I made friends with a pretty girl and now we get to plan a castle break in. This beats the day to day kill, eat and survive.Emilyann Girdner
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Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.Richelle E. Goodrich
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Personal branding for dream fulfillment often comes like the process of building castles. You have to be attracted to the construction work carefully, consistently and passionately over time.Israelmore Ayivor
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Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen. It is the same with dreams.Israelmore Ayivor
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Tonight his father had caught up, carrying all the horrors of hell with him. His mother could no longer protect him–hide him–and now his father‟s wrath would fall on him. He ran across the fields and through the forest, his bare feet carrying him as fast as they could go, aching and bleeding into the night. He could feel his father‟s eyes on him and his stinking breath filling Raven‟s nostrils as he rushed toward the only place he had ever found safe. He sobbed, choking on his grief and his frustration–the horrible guilt of carrying all the anger from his father into their house making him sick and afraid. He ran with lungs and muscles burning from strain, throwing himself through the doors of the castle when he reached them and only then chancing to look back the way he‟d come.Amanda M. Lyons
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Jasper set an intercepting course towards that Rhylonian Star Duster. Maybe we can catch them on their blind side.”“ Doesn’t this ship have a cloak?” Jaq asks.“ Miss Synergy, I don’t know what they teach now a’days at the Academy, but ships do not wear clothes.Nathan Reese Maher
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Stories start in all sorts of places. Where they begin often tells the reader of what to expect as they progress. Castles often lead to dragons, country estates to deeds of deepest love (or of hate), and ambiguously presented settings usually lead to equally as ambiguous characters and plot, leaving a reader with an ambiguous feeling of disappointment. That's one of the worst kinds.Rebecca McKinsey
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Jasper! ” Casey shouts, startling the young woman. “My cargo is talking to me!Nathan Reese Maher
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She points to where he went and looks to the neutral Baumen. “He–he did that to me on purpose! He’s insane. Literally, insane! ” The munchkin just shrugs. “Welcome aboard! ” and returns unconcerned to his work.Nathan Reese Maher
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For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.Ransom Riggs