"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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@sarahnour.bsky.social"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
@sarahnour.bsky.social"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
@sarahnour.bsky.social"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
@sarahnour.bsky.social"[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
@observethedate.bsky.social
@danigracewrites.bsky.social@observethedate.bsky.social@sarahnour.bsky.social"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
@sarahnour.bsky.social"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
@sarahnour.bsky.social"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
@sarahnour.bsky.social"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
@sarahnour.bsky.social"[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
@sarahnour.bsky.social"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
@observethedate.bsky.social@sarahnour.bsky.social"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
@sarahnour.bsky.social"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
@sarahnour.bsky.social"The sun was out... Inej had turned her face to it. Her eyes were shut, oil-black lashes fanned over her cheeks. The harbor wind had lifted her dark hair, and for a moment Kaz was a boy again, sure that there was magic in this world."
—Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo
@observethedate.bsky.social@sarahnour.bsky.social"Fear was inevitable. We all made our choices, and we all suffered our consequences. We all felt fear. The trick was learning to live with that fear, to continue forward in spite of it."
—Gods and Monsters, Shelby Mahurin
@sarahnour.bsky.social"Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun."
—The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stiego Larsson