#castle

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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#architecture #castle #clouds #rules

After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.


Diana Wynne Jones


#howl #howl-s-moving-castle #humor #magic #sophie-hatter

Another strike of lightening – now accompanied by the deep-bellied rumble, and the horse reared, incidentally setting Henry very picturesquely against the inconstant moon. Alas, Catherine was deeply engaged in her argument with Old Edric and this missed entirely the melodramatic display. But we may assume that, possessing so strong an imagination, Catherine had often pictured Henry thus...


Emily C.A. Snyder


#jane-austen #nachtsturm-castle #northanger-abbey #imagination

The Castle. He’d seen this expression far too many times during their marriage. The Castle was Bryony drawing up the gates and retreating deep into the inner keep. And he’d always hated it. Marriage meant that you shared your goddamn castle. You didn’t leave your poor knight of a husband circling the walls trying to find a way in.


Sherry Thomas


#knight #leo #sherry-thomas #marriage

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarreling in the greatest comfort and convenience. Oh, please, Althea, look at me. Do say yes.


Patrice Kindl


#althea-crawley #arguing #comfort #convenience #engagement

Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.


Nemo Nox


#growth #saving #path

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.


Henry David Thoreau


#built #castles #foundations #lost #need

Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington.


Sebastian Bach


#going #know #like #shows #well

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.


Claude McKay


#based #castle #foundation #idealism #like

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.


Margaret O'Brien


#always #ancient #ancient times #antiques #authentic