Juliet Marillier quote: "More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. <br />Jenny will do well enough."

The owl,” he was saying, “is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the...
M.J. ROSE

We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love an...
JULIET MARILLIER

You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bold; that clutches hold of you by...
JULIET MARILLIER

Like some winter animal the moon licks the salt of your hand,
Yet still your hair foams violet ...
JOHANNES BOBROWSKI

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had, just enough time.
KIMBERLY PERRY

Look behind you now.
Do you feel in your heart a slight hastening of its beat, and a powerful s...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
EDWARD HERSEY RICHARDS

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
CHINESE PROVERBS

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
JOHN A. SIMONE, SR.

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
EDWARD H. RICHARDS

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
CONFUCIUS

A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he he...
DANIEL YERGIN

A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world...
JULIET MARILLIER

Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
EDWARD HERSEY RICHARDS

Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ...
JOHN GREEN

The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. ...
EVAN PARKER

The mosquito knows full well that he is small, he is a beast of prey.
DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE

You do not necessarily have to get before you do but when you do, you shall get
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

The wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he...
EDWARD H. RICHARDS

Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hu...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts...
SHARON TATE

Listening: A wise old owl sat in an oak. The longer he sat, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, th...
SOURCE UNKNOWN

The only leftovers there are some of the apples. There might be enough to take home and make a small...
PAT CURRAN

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing tha...
J.R. RIM

I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th...
JIM GENOVESE

If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ

It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ

Philosophies of the world: Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it West...
APURVA GAGLANI

Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv...
NICKOLE SANDERS

become two wings of the same bird of prey.
PAT BUCHANAN

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a ...
SHARON TATE

People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of...
EDWARD JEFFREY

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU

Think of something, Oh yes! Think of something. Your life must not be in retardation so think of som...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

The dart is loaded with enough sedative to bring down a—”

“Small elephant?”
...
DEREK LANDY

Well, I only wish you may all not have your throats slit by Uygurs," Riley said in deep pessimism, g...
NAOMI NOVIK

Eeyore", said Owl, "Christopher Robin is giving a party."
"Very interesting," said Eeyore. "I s...
A.A. MILNE

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your pr...
ANONYMOUS

When a church seeks a pastor, they want the strength of an eagle, the grace of a swan, the gentlenes...
UNKNOWN

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really ge...
ERYKAH BADU

Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubju...
LEWIS CARROLL

Go out into the world, traveler. See what the long nights and hard days feel like, after a week of t...
KATHERINE ARDEN

Monsters, monsters, big and small,
"They're gonna come and eat you all.
Corsai, Corsai, to...
VICTORIA SCHWAB

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY

no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

To see something marvellous with your own eyes –that’s wonderful enough.

But when tw...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing lea...
BOB DYLAN

He sleeps and sleeps, and the days go by, ... I love him dearly and for ever, but this lack of drive...
NOEL COWARD

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, ...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ...
ALBERT CAMUS

But how can you walk away from something and still come
back to it?"
"Easy," said the cat....
NEIL GAIMAN

Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science dire...
DANIEL NATHANS

A feather when viewed separately may seem like only a feather,
But when seen through the eyes o...
MOLLY FRIEDENFELD

It's a small world? Perhaps in your social triangle, but for an explorer like me, hardly.
THEO ALEXANDER DOUWES

It's a curious thing with George. With his glasses off, his eyes looked small and weak - blinky and ...
JONATHAN STROUD

the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised,...
BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER)

Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. “And you wonder why we aren’t friends.”
“I just wo...
CASSANDRA CLARE

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?"
"Easy," said the cat. "Thi...
NEIL GAIMAN

What I do when it distresses me that there's something I can't remember, is. Are you listening?
ALI SMITH

The Fever Bird

The fever bird sand out last night.
I could not sleep, try as I might...
VIKRAM SETH

The End is Nigh!" the man shouted.
"Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked.
T...
JANA OLIVER

Connectivity without stability such like building something fragile inside something empty
GIHARU SI PEREMPUAN GUNUNG

Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)
RICHARD KADREY

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“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE

The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
...
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I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly b...
C. S. LEWIS

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C. JOYBELL C.

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JOAN DIDION

She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the wo...
TAIYE SELASI

If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
The head...
WALT WHITMAN

At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, To...
AARON HILL

All right, my hope—but I am not saying the rest of it—I have something you need to feel.”
SHERRY THOMAS

Royce understood then why she had come: she had come to finish the task her relatives had begun; to ...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT

What do you think of when you think of mourning?' Jenny asks.
The question snaps me back to att...
STEVEN ROWLEY

Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away ...
PAUL BOWLES

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet e...
BRANDON LEE

Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON

More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps.
Jenny will do well enough.

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More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps.
Jenny will do well enough.

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Jenny will do well enough.