#on

Laistry....I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?" "Canadians. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #english

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. ↗

— William Golding

#nationalism #poignant #pride #english

If only…the saddest words in the English language. ↗

— Kristan Higgins

#sad #english

My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#song-of-fire-and-ice #tyrion-lannister #song

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#language #words #language

A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark. ↗

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

#real #relationships #language

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#books

My library is an archive of longings. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#library #longing #books

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion in the only guarantee of morality. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#animals #barbarism #compassion #cruelty #morality

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#optimism #pessimism #schizophrenia #universe