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mjjaxn.bsky.social
Melanie Jackson
@mjjaxn.bsky.social
2K followers 2.2K following 10K posts
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... and look at cats. Author of Chloe Boston, Butterscotch Jones and Miss Henry mysteries, artist and animal lover. Not a fan of DM. No Crypto.
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 14h
“Anyone who tells a lie has not pure heart, and cannot make good soup.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 14h
"We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!" ~ H. P. Lovecraft
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 14h
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." ~ Jane Austen
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 14h
When you are old&grey&full of sleep
&nodding by the fire, take down this book
&slowly read&dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once&of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
&loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you.
-W B Yeats
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 14h
"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself." ~ Mark Twain
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 14h
“The only things you like sprung on you are snacks.”
― Abby Jimenez
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 17h
You may call,
But the little black cats won't hear you.
The little black cats are maddened
By the bright green light ofthemoon;
They are whirling and running and hiding,
They are wild who were once so confiding,
They are crazed when the moon is riding
You will not catch the kittens soon.-Coatsworth
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
Ye who, passing graves by night,
Glance not to the left nor right,
Lest a spirit should arise,
Cold and white, to freeze your eyes...
~James Russell Lowell
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
-Robert Frost
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture’s sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right …
-Shakespeare
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
But with the night comes night time demons clear
Of hobgoblins and witches and their brew,
And ghosts haunting the wood both far and near
To get you feeling very scared and blue.
So stay in the light and stay close to home
Then you only have to fear the garden gnome.
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
"Never try to outstubborn a cat." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
"Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts." ~ Brian Aldiss
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
The Hag is astride,
This night for to ride;
The Devill and shee together:
Through thick, and through thin,
Now out, and then in,
Though ne'r so foule be the weather.
-Robert Herrick (by Wladyslaw Podkowinski)
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
We'll plunge into the darkness,
Into the hands of harm,
When science and the devil
Go walking arm and arm.
-Dean Koontz
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”
― William Shakespeare
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
Rock's always been the devil's music. - David Bowie
(Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein)
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.
-Terry Pratchett
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
"Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time." - Steve Uzzell
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
Looking for some peace and quiet. Which is kind of funny given how little of it she gives us 🙂
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
Watching the news...
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
“This is, indeed, a place where magic happens…”
― Amanda V. Shane
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22h
“Ye think work cannae be done drunk? Sometimes being drunk improves it.”
― Arwen Elys Dayton
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 23h
And back behind those smiling lips,
And down within those laughing eyes,
And underneath the soft caress
Of hand and voice and purring sighs,
The shadow of the panther lurks,
The spirit of the vampire lies.
-James Weldon Johnson
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