#owl

I've got a hangover" "No, you hit your head on the floor" "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#sophie #fool

Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#rowling #fire

All things are strange which are worth knowing. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#knowledge #odd #strange #bizarre

Curiosity is more important than knowledge. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#knowledge #curiosity

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#certainty #humility #knowledge #policy #humility

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#people #prejudice #prejudice

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

Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both? ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#foaly #holly-short #orion #noble

how does she know it's the right room?' wondered Descant. Oh, I don't know; mabye it's the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it's the deafening howl of the temporal winds.' said Mervall. Descant nodded.'You could be right, brother. And don't think I don't know sarcasm when I hear it. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#descant #fowl #mervall #paradox #time

HOLLY: Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book? FOALY: No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of the rule book, and if you do, you have certainly never opened it. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#foaly #holly-short #paradox