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Weekly Words  is my blog where I post small illustrations as often as I can.  Since I draw inspiration from reading and am writing fiction of my own, I include a quote with each illustration from either an already loved and published author, or if I dare, a piece of my own writing...

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In This Garden

8/5/2016

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“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us - like electricity and horses and steam.”

“Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people.  So it must be all around us.  In this garden—in all the places.”

― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Two quotes this week! Both from the same source.  I just couldn't decide which I liked better, and maybe it makes up for my absence a little.  Plus, I spent extra time on this one. I'm adding this author to my to read list. Enjoy.

'"Frances Eliza Hodgson was the daughter of ironmonger Edwin Hodgson, who died three years after her birth, and his wife Eliza Boond. She was educated at The Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentleman until the age of fifteen, at which point the family ironmongery, then being run by her mother, failed, and the family emigrated to Knoxville, Tennessee. Here Hodgson began to write, in order to supplement the family income, assuming full responsibility for the family upon the death of her mother, in 1870. In 1872 she married Dr. Swan Burnett, with whom she had two sons, Lionel and Vivian. The marriage was dissolved in 1898. In 1900 Burnett married actor Stephen Townsend until 1902 when they got divorced. Following her great success as a novelist, playwright, and children's author, Burnett maintained homes in both England and America, traveling back and forth quite frequently. She died in her Long Island, New York home, in 1924.
Primarily remembered today for her trio of classic children's novels - Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911) - Burnett was also a popular adult novelist, in her own day, publishing romantic stories such as The Making of a Marchioness (1901) for older readers."'


I read about this author here: www.goodreads.com/…/sh&#…
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Lest He Become a Monster

8/5/2016

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Part of my Weekly Words series featuring an author's quote and illustration by me.

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he become a monster... If you gaze for long into an abyss, it gazes also into you."
Fridrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil


This is a simpler version of an illustration I've been wanting to draw. I don't know if I will get to it anytime soon or at all. So here it is, sort of.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher. I had a hard time researching this quote, I am not 100% sure it is from that particular book. Someone correct me if they know. There was even several different versions of the quote, and I can't translate the original German text myself of course, so I took a bit from each of those versions and arranged it in a way I thought flowed the best.

Enjoy.

I read about this author here:  http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/biography/friedrich_nietzsche_biography


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Sometimes I do

8/5/2016

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“They say to never look back.  But sometimes I do.  It’s gratifying to see how far I’ve come.”
-Richelle E. Goodrich,
Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year


Enjoy!

'Richelle is a native of Washington State, graduated from Eastern Washington University with bachelor's degrees in Liberal Studies and Math/Science Education. Her quotes have been published in a number of books including the Oxford "Philosophy Being Human" Course Book, "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas in Canada", and in a Revlon magazine ad campaign. She has a strong love of the arts―drama, choir, sketching, painting, literature. This author writes whenever and wherever opportunity presents itself. She describes herself beautifully in the following quote:
"I like bubbles in everything. I respect the power of silence. In cold or warm weather I favor a mug of hot cocoa. I admire cats―their autonomy, grace, and mystery. I awe at the fiery colors in a sunset. I believe in deity. I hear most often with my eyes, and I will trust a facial expression before any accompanying comment. I invent rules, words, adventures, and imaginary friends. I pretend something wonderful every day. I will never quit pretending."
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
Richelle writes young adult books―fantasies, adventures, and some realities, always with a touch of romance. "'

I read about this author here: www.goodreads.com/…/show…

Author's website: www.richellegoodrich.com/

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Life Gives You Melons

8/5/2016

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EDIT UPDATE:

I recently contacted the author of this quote to ask her permission to use it only to find out she doesn't own the quote after all!  Since I haven't read "Where the Road Takes me" I'm unsure if she meant the quote wasn't in the book at all, or just that she wasn't the original author of the quote.  Apparently, it is a popular string of words found on T-shirts, ect. but the source is so far a mystery.  If anyone knows more about the origins of this funny little quote, let me know so I can give proper credit.
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“When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic”
― Jay McLean, Where the Road Takes Me

A fun one this week. I haven't read this author before, but she sounds like a good writer... I saw this quote floating around the web and lo and behold it's from an author.
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"Jay McLean is an international best-selling author and full-time reader, writer of New Adult Romance, and most of all, procrastinator. When she’s not doing any of those things, she can be found running after her two little boys, playing house and binge watching Netflix.
She writes what she loves to read, which are books that can make her laugh, make her hurt and make her feel.
Jay lives in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, in a forever half-done home where music is loud and laughter is louder."

I read about this author here:  https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4724550.Jay_McLean

http://www.jaymcleanauthor.com/

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Call of My Heart

8/5/2016

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“I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted.”
― Steve Goodier


I promise myself every week, just a quick sketch... just a quick sketch. These are not quick sketches. I can't help myself, once I get drawing something and I begin to see what it is, because I do not always start with an intention, I have a difficult time letting it be anything less than what I see it turning into. I could do more with this, but I will stop myself here.
This time I started the drawing first and then found a quote that I felt matched it's meaning.
Anyway, this is a quote by Steve Goodier. I read about him here: abettermemagazine.com/author/s…

"Steve Goodier holds a B.A. and M.Div., is an ordained minister and author of several books. He writes a blog at stevegoodier.blogspot.com, publishes a weekly newsletter at www.lifesupportsystem.com, writes a syndicated newspaper column and is featured regularly in the magazine "Change Your Attitude...Change Your Life." He teaches, speaks and writes about personal development, motivation, inspiration, and making needed life changes. Together with his wife (and best friend) Bev, a professional counselor and small group leader, he has led numerous workshops on relational, spiritual and inter-personal growth topics."

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Do Not Feel Lonely

8/5/2016

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“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.” – Rumi

Woops, I'm a little late with this one, busy last couple days.
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"Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mawlānā/Mevlânâ, Mevlevî/Mawlawī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic."
"Rumi has been described as the "most popular poet" and the "best selling poet" in the United States."
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Rumi said all kinds of things that tickle our imagination... I probably won't resist sharing more from him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi

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The Human Bean

8/5/2016

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“Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food.
"You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG


The BFG was one of my favorite books I read as a kid. There's a lot to know about this author. He was a fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force in WWII. I read about him here:
http://www.biography.com/people/roald-dahl-9264648
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'In addition to James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl's most popular kids' books include Fantastic Fox (1970), The Witches (1983) and Matilda (1988)'

'Dahl told New York Times book reviewer Willa Petschek, "As I went on the stories became less and less realistic and more fantastic." He went on to describe his foray into writing as a "pure fluke," saying, "Without being asked to, I doubt if I'd ever have thought to do it."'

ALSO, I am excited to discover this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ0Bey4YUGI

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Isn't it Odd?

8/5/2016

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“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

Cornelia Funke is a German author. She wrote the "Inkheart" trilogy, which is the only series I've read more than once because I loved it that much. When I think of the first book in the series, "Inkheart", I remember reading by firelight, and the scent of wood smoke mixed with the tang of printed pages. Hushing rain, thunder, darkness and warmth. With the power out, I shared close to the same setting as the main character, Meggie, in the first scene of the book as I read it.

Cornelia Funke, I learned, was an illustrator who grew bored of the stories she had  to illustrate, so she began to write her own.

I had characters in mind myself, but never once did I think I could try to write their story. I subconsciously believed writing was someone else's art, but when I read about the author in the back of "Inkheart", I remember thinking for the first time I should write a story too.

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