#hog

Isabelle looked dubious. "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out." "That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No. Probably not. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#funny #humor #series #sonic-the-hedgehog #the-mortal-instruments

Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus [never tickle a sleeping dragon] ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#latin #motto #never-tickle-a-sleeping-dragon #sleep

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear. ↗

— J. B. Morton

#being #disadvantage #ear #fool #hog

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it. ↗

— Holly Near

#feeding #hogwash #just #keep #people

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#like #look #persons #pious #some

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off. ↗

— Lewis B. Hershey

#better #better off #hog #hogs #know

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#art #complete #entirely #hedgehog #isolated

Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him. 'Mum! I can't give a professor love!' 'But you know Neville-' James rolled his eyes. 'Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him love.... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#deathly-hallows #epilogue #harry-potter #hogwarts #humor

Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hogwarts #death

That was it. Shogo stopped breathing. The dim yellow light falling from the ceiling of the pilothouse shone on his pale face. He seemed at ease. "Shogo!" Shuya yelled. He still had more to say. "You'll see Keiko! You'll be happy with her! You're--" It was too late. Shogo couldn't hear anything anymore. But his face just looked so damned peaceful. "Damn it." Shuya's lips trembled along with his words. "Damn it." Holding Shogo's hands, Noriko was crying. Shuya also put his hand on Shogo's thick hand. A thought occured to him. He searched through Shogo's pockets and found the red bird call. He pressed it into Shogo's right hand and closed his hands over it so he could hold it. Shuya then finally burst into tears. ↗

— Koushun Takami

#sad #shogo #death