#fiction

‎They are angry with me, because I know what I am." Said the little eagle. "How do you know that they are angry with you?" "Because, they despise me for wanting to soar, they only want me to peck at the dirt, looking for ants, with them. But I can't do that. I don't have chicken feet, I have eagle wings." "And what is so wrong with having eagle wings and no chicken feet?" Asked the old owl. "I'm not sure, that's what I'm trying to find out." "They hate you because you know that you are an eagle and they want you to think you are a chicken so that you will peck at the ground looking for ants and worms, so that you will never know that you are an eagle and always think yourself a chicken. Let them hate you, they will always be chickens, and you will always be an eagle. You must fly. You must soar." Said the old owl. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#eagles #fable #fables #flying #inspirational

We all know interspecies romance is weird. ↗

— Tim Burton

#animals #biology #genetics #interspecies #love

She had wanted more than she could have. She had wanted him, and more... she had wanted him to want her. In the name of something bigger than tradition, bolder than reputation, more important than a silly title. ↗

— Sarah MacLean

#love-heartache #romance #love

Look before you blunder ↗

— Simon Haynes

#science-fiction #science

Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it. [Regarding the '10 Rules for Science Fiction' article posted at http://www.cthreepo.com/writing/laws....] ↗

— Kevin Hosey

#science

Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is. ↗

— Mark Hodder

#science-fiction #steampunk #science

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell. ↗

— Poul Anderson

#science-fiction #science

In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed. ↗

— David Marusek

#science

— Frank Olvera