"Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him."

—The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

#BookologyThursday

"My grandfather kept the key to his house in Yaffa in 1948. He thought they would return in a few days... The house was destroyed... The key has rusted but still exists somewhere, longing for the old wooden door."

—Palestine A-Z, Mosab Abu Toha

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"A day comes when, thanks to rigidity, nothing causes wonder any more, everything is known, and life is spent in beginning over again... To come alive again, one needs a special grace, self-forgetfulness, or a homeland."

—Return to Tipasa, Albert Camus

#BookologyThursday

Thursday
#AdoorableThursday
#BookologyThursday
#BridgesThursday
#FolkloreThursday
#GlassObjectThursday
#HelmetThursday
#InsectThursday
#IronworkThursday
#MetalWorkThursday
#OrchidThursday
#PubSignThursday
#RomanFortThursday
#ThatchThursday
#ThrowBackThursday
#ThursdayBins
#ThursdayChairs
#Thursgate

"Rabbits live close to death, and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else."

—Watership Down, Richard Adams

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"It's as if someone fashioned a small golden bird and then attached a ring around it. The bird is connected to the ring only by its wing tips. I suddenly recognize it. It's a mockingjay."

—The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

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"Far below me, I can sense the sea life... A startled fish changes direction at the approach of the ship. A dolphin prepares to breach the surface. A whale hums far in the distance."

—Daughter of the Siren Queen, Tricia Levenseller

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"[Toto] was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose. Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly."

—The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

#BookologyThursday

Thursday
#AdoorableThursday
#BookologyThursday
#BridgesThursday
#FolkloreThursday
#GlassObjectThursday
#HelmetThursday
#InsectThursday
#IronworkThursday
#MetalWorkThursday
#OrchidThursday
#PubSignThursday
#RomanFortThursday
#ThatchThursday
#ThrowBackThursday
#ThursdayBins
#ThursdayChairs
#Thursgate

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#WritingPrompt 4:

#BookologyThursday
#ThursThreads
#TankaThursday
#SFFChat
#WeeknightWriters
#LateNightWrite
#SciFiFri
#FridayFlashFics
#FragmentsFriday
#FaveLineFriday
#BornBattleReady
#PoemsAbout
#LesFicFri
#QueerWritersChat
#VSSMagic
#SciFiSat
#Fantaiku
#ScifaikuSaturday
#HaikuSaturday

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Thursday
#AdoorableThursday
#BookologyThursday
#BridgesThursday
#FolkloreThursday
#GlassObjectThursday
#HelmetThursday
#InsectThursday
#IronworkThursday
#MetalWorkThursday
#OrchidThursday
#PubSignThursday
#RomanFortThursday
#ThatchThursday
#ThrowBackThursday
#ThursdayBins
#ThursdayChairs
#Thursgate

"Every time she gave a party she had this feeling of being something not herself, and that everyone was unreal in one way."

—Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

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"People were not invited... and somehow they ended up at Gatsby's door. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission."

—The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"And so the merry party began. It was one of those jolly, happy, bread-crumbling parties where you cough twice before you speak, and then decide not to say it after all."

—My Man Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse

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"The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat...
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are."

—The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Edward Lear

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"[When] Lancelot advanced with the friendly intention of tickling the cat Percy under right ear, he gave the young man a cold, evil look... [and] took an inch of skin off his hand with one well-judged swipe of a steel-pronged paw."

—Cats Will Be Cats, P.G. Wodehouse

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"The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have three different names."

—Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot

#BookologyThursday

Thursday
#AdoorableThursday
#BookologyThursday
#BridgesThursday
#FolkloreThursday
#GlassObjectThursday
#HelmetThursday
#InsectThursday
#IronworkThursday
#MetalWorkThursday
#OrchidThursday
#PubSignThursday
#RomanFortThursday
#ThatchThursday
#ThrowBackThursday
#ThursdayBins
#ThursdayChairs
#Thursgate

"A witch never gets caught. Don’t forget that she has magic in her fingers and devilry dancing in her blood."

—The Witches, Roald Dahl

#BookologyThursday

"When the moon came, dappling the foamy water with silver, she watched it as it dipped down its forehead in the stream and​ touched the treetops with magic."

—The House Without Windows, Barbara Newhall Follett

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