"It was a castle made entirely out of food.... It rose from its lake of milk in a mystic light of its own — in a greasy, buttery glow. It was the fairy aspect of Castle Chariot, which the [fairies].... had thought would be tempting to the children." - T. H. White, "Once and Future King" #BookWormSat
#BookWormSat "Understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above - that's where you lived - and then there's London Below - the Underside - inhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world." Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
‘(T)he bat-fell of Thuringwethil. She was a messenger of Sauron, and was wont to fly in vampire’s form to Angband; and her great fingered wings were barbed at each joint’s end with an iron claw. Clad in these dreadful garments…all things fled before them.’ #BookWormSat
‘I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures.’ ~ Tolkien for an adventurous #BookWormSat
‘Now look, your grace,’ said Sancho, ‘what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone.’ ‘Obviously,’ replied Don Quijote, ‘you don't know much about adventures.’ ~ Cervantes #BookWormSat
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will." ✍️ Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre" (1847) #BookWormSat 📷Tim Adorf
"We're going to discover the North Pole." "Oh!" said Pooh again. "What is the North Pole?" he asked. "It's just a thing you discover," said Christopher Robin carelessly, not being quite sure himself. - A. A. Milne, 'Winnie-The-Pooh' (1926) #BookWormSat 🎨: E. H. Shepard
#BookWormSat 5 Oct: Adventure An outstanding collection of planetary adventures by Leigh Brackett. Set in a future with space travel, but in primitive environments on fictional versions of Mars and Venus, so it reads more like fantasy. Cover art by Les Edwards.
‘Doo after the good and leve the evyl, and it shal brynge you to good fame and renomme.’ ~ Thomas Malory’s Morte d'Arthur for #BookWormSat
‘The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.’ ~ Tolkein, LOTR. #BookWormSat 🖼 The Crossroads, Ted Nasmith.
