#owl

That will be her undoing," gasped Artemis, already suffering under the weight of the flak jacket. "Artemis Fowl will never be secondary." "I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?" said Holly. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#artemis-fowl-the- #funny

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#beat-generation #jack-kerouac #mind #self #self-awareness

Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge. ↗

— Tom Regan

#humans #self-knowledge

I put the “now” in knowledge. Well, I will put it there, probably tomorrow or tomorrow’s tomorrow.
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— Jarod Kintz

#knowledge #now #procrastination #tomorrow #procrastination

(Xander) He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#knowlege #librarians

When I hear your name, I involuntarily clench my butt cheeks. Is that love? I don’t know—I’m not Nicholas Sparks.
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— Jarod Kintz

#clench #hear #hearing #knowledge #listen

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together. ↗

— David Levithan

#self-knowledge

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#kindlehighlight #knowledge #manipulation #propoganda #truth

But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me, Jenny Gluckstein — like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing — recognition is something else. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#love #love

Love couldn’t be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies—skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn’t deny what it wanted most once the desire was planted. Whether in bliss or affliction, love owned you all the same. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#destiny #eternal-love #gavin-devereaux #love #resistance-trilogy