A Quote by Seanan McGuire

Beneath the Sugar Sky' is an homage to the portal fantasies of my childhood: it is the portal running in reverse.

Seanan McGuire

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Beneath Childhood Fantasies Homage Portal Reverse Running Sky Sugar

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Seanan McGuire
American - Author
Born: January 5, 1978

A "portal" is an opening (door, window, or opening). A heavenly portal or a glory portal is a heavenly opening through which God's goodness manifests. I have seen a portal in a vision and it was a circular opening where a column of light poured down into the earth. There were angels ascending and descending.

Patricia King

People have been known to joke that my lifelong love of portal fantasies was born, at least in part, from the fact that stepping into my private spaces is a little like stepping through a portal into another world.

Seanan McGuire

The very first plan I wrote for MySpace was that it would be a portal, but a portal wrapped around your user profile.

Tom Anderson

One of the things I loved about working on 'Portal' was that we'd get emails from people saying, 'I love to play first-person shooters but my girlfriend won't play them with me. But I got her to play 'Portal' and she had a blast.'

Kim Swift

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

Oscar Wilde

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.

Sue Monk Kidd

Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together on the wires, five of them lined up like beads on an abacus.