Forget Me Not

"If you forget me, think

of our gifts to Aphrodite

and all the loveliness that we shared

all the violet tiaras

braided rosebuds, dill and

crocus twined around your young neck"

Sappho

Of Bears and Men

"Why does a bear shit in the woods?  Because it is his nature." - Tyrion Lannister, The Game of Thrones, G. R. R. Martin

Observe...

"A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes." - Ser Gregor Clegane, The Game of Thrones, G. R. R. Martin.

Honing the Mind

"... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." - Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin

All that was is gone to ruin

"Once there were islands all a-sprout with palms: and coral reefs and sands as white as milk.  What is there now but a vast shambles of the heart?  Filth, squalor, and a world of little men." - Muzzlehatch, Titus Alone, Chapter 114, The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake.

The Meaning of Home

"Home is a room dappled with firelight: there are pictures and books. And when the rain sighs, and the acorns fall, there are patterns of leaves against the drawn curtains.  Home is where I was safe." Carrow, Titus Alone, The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy by Meryvn Peake.

Love

"The night poured in upon them from every side - a million cubic miles of it.  O, the glory of standing with one's love, naked, as it were, on a spinning marble, while the spheres ran flaming through the universe!" Gormenghast, Chapter 36, The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake

Reality or Fantasy?

"There are times when the emotions are so clamorous and the rational working of the mind so perfuctory that there is no telling where the actual leaves off and the images of fantasy begin." Gormenghast, Chapter 35, The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake.

Sharp Wit

"Change your idiom, my young friend, or change your tense..." Bellgrove, Gormenghast, Chapter 18, The Illustrated Ghormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake.

Spring Cleaning

"I have no doubt that we are all but sterilized to extinction: no tartar on the banisters: not a microbe left to live its life in peace." - Alfred Prunesquallor, Gormenghast, Chapter 7, The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake.