#castle

But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt]. 'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace... The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me... three more men does make a lot of difference. ↗

— John Flanagan

#halt #horace #ranger-s-apprentice #men

Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle. ↗

— Nemo Nox

#growth #saving #path

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#castle #self #books

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#description #gothic #owl #purple #ruin

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#baby #built #castle #house #i

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#before #bodies #came #castle #confronted

A man's house is his castle. ↗

— James Otis

#castle #his #house #man

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#build #castles #easy #refuge #take

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

#builds #castle #collects #lives #man

Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man's home is his castle. Donald Trump's career-long willingness to trample this right tells you everything you need to know about his bogus tea party sideshow. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#begins #bogus #castle #championing #donald