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All the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in absorbing his dreams, they had delivered him from an obsession, they themselves were, in turn, enriched by the absorption; they shewed him the palpable realisation of his fancies, and they interested his mind; they took shape and grew solid before his eyes, and at the same time they soothed his troubled heart.

... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

Mary just stares at her, the keys to the library forgotten in her hand. She is the most beautiful girl Mary has ever seen. Her hair is a big mess of dark curls that are kept out of her face with a blue bandana that somehow brings out the green in her eyes and her dungarees are folded at the bottom to reveal a pair of bright yellow socks.

She has no memories of her mother but imagines her as white, a soundless brilliance. Her father radiates a thousand colors, opal, strawberry red, deep russet, wild green; a smell like oil and metal, the feel of a lock tumbler sliding home, the sound of his key rings chiming as he walks.

The pride the duchess had felt seemed to leave her and become absorbed through the king’s eyes, where he picked it apart.

There were hundreds of them, all dressed like silver dragons, all with long, streaming capes that looked like great wings, flapping and twirling as they fought.

Strange imagined shapes of things,wild distortions of the familiar,like the galaxies, pinpoints,of the imagined; untilthe polished multiple eyesof lofted telescopes —while buffeted by cosmic dustand plasma —passed down bit by bitthe great glass marble of the universe.

La vista era preciosa, se veía gran parte de Nueva York, a muchas personas, como algunas iban corriendo y con muchas prisas y otras que iban más relajadas. Se veían parques, algunas casas... Una vista preciosa de Nueva York.

Outdoors; everything one might dream. The fairy-gray clouded sky and the fairy-green misted wood. Her tall horse shying at a sparkling brook. All dreams.