The Reverie Quotes

“Nine is the number of the feast without limits, where all that’s possible waxes probable and whatever may be, might be. Nine is the symbol seized in sleep and seeded into forever, freed by dreams and fervent screams of what should be. Nine kindles the imagination unbound by reason, risen to conceive without surcease or subjection to objective truth. Nine quickens the flesh to breach the formulas of fell, fallacious form and reach beyond the lines that bind and blind. Nine hails ambition unbowed by reality, driven to roam and remake the world without submission to sense or tangibility. Nine heralds the Angel Ascendant and the Architect Infernal alike, a phoenix and a many-headed serpent entwined. Nine is the beginning in the end, coiled and convoluted to create and devour until the difference is none. Nine marks the most wondrous and treacherous of paths, and thus the only one worth walking, for enlightenment lies in waking. Nine is nought but itself and one and all.”
― Peter Fehervari, The Reverie

“That isn’t my name.’ Nor has he offered her one, for anonymity is the custom of those bound for the Reverie. They are simply ‘travellers’ until they reach their destination. After all, they are seeking themselves.”
― Peter Fehervari, The Reverie

“To seize the sun and the moon then make them one invites the fall eternal. For all things that shine are not necessarily alike, nor likely to align.”
― Peter Fehervari, The Reverie

“You can't run from the truth. It runs faster.”
― Peter Fehervari, The Reverie

“The Angel rises from refined hearts. Through mortal eyes He reflects light into the darkness. By mortal hands He reclaims the future, one dream at a time. What was lost may yet be founded anew. Never falter on your path. Never fester in fear, despair or doubt. Never fall, within or without. Arise on burning wings.”
― Peter Fehervari, The Reverie

“They raise us up and call us sisters and brothers then let us fall into ourselves. And in our dissolution their superiority is magnified and made manifest.”
― Peter Fehervari, The Reverie

“We rise above the firmament of souls on blazing wings, dreaming dreams no mortal dares behold. And in our burning, blinding, ever-sighted eye, all that was or might yet be screams of tales untold.”
― Peter Fehervari, The Reverie

“This woman is not someone he would have forgotten. She is extraordinarily tall and slender, her body wrapped in overlapping fronds of shimmering blue silk. Silver bangles encircle her velvet-sheathed arms in serpentine coils. Her scalp is smoothly shaven save for a braided topknot that blooms out to cover her ears and shoulders in an indigo cascade. A web of fine black lines covers her face, weaving a ‘third eye’ upon her forehead, its spiral iris framed by widespread wings. The traveller cannot tell whether the pattern is tattooed or incised into her alabaster skin, nor decide upon her age, for she seems suspended between youth and maturity, but her allure is unquestionable. Timeless. The name he knows her by is Euryale, though he suspects that is only one of many and not the truest.”
― Peter Fehervari, The Reverie

“Her bare feet floating just above the restless waters, the seeker followed the river’s course towards the dancing lights on the horizon. Water sprayed around her, never quite touching her glowing skin. She could feel her former patron’s gaze, not upon her, but searching, eager to repossess her, like a treasured relic made all the more precious now it was lost to him. He wouldn’t come after her, but he would never stop looking.
‘Arise or fall, brother,’ the seeker sang. ‘Arise or fall.’
She never looked back.”
― Peter Fehervari, The Reverie

“Fate paints without recourse to any cause. But only the boldest strokes endure.”
― Peter Fehervari, The Reverie

“They raise us up and call us sisters and brothers then let us fall into ourselves. And in our dissolution their superiority is magnified and made manifest.”
― Peter Fehervari, The Reverie