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Quotes About Castle

One of the doctors who had worked for him in the castle twenty years ago always said that God takes pity on motherfuckers first.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
After months of investigation, all the detective was able to recover was a broken wristwatch and the name of the man who had killed my father in the moat of Montjuïc Castle. His name was Fumero, Javier Fumero.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The young detective smiled, glad that everything had worked out so successfully. Her gaze wandered along the stately cloister of Heath Castle. With the afternoon sun sinking low, the shadowy passageway had never looked more beautiful. It was peaceful and quiet, and nothing was further from Nancy's thoughts than a new mystery.
~ Carolyn Keene
And therein were many knights and squires to behold, scaffolds and pavilions; for there upon the morn should be a great tournament: and the lord of the tower was in his castle and looked out at a window, and saw a damosel, a dwarf, and a knight armed at all points.
~ Thomas Malory
I have sieged many a castle in my day, m'lady, but my attack on your keep will be the sweetest of all." She giggled as I kissed every inch of her face. "Oh, we're doing medieval now? Okay, I can do that. I've been to a Renaissance Faire. Avast ye varlet! No quarter!" "That was piratical, dearling, but we'll go with it if you like. Lower your gangplanks and prepare to be boarded!" -Dane and Megan (Stag Party)
~ Katie MacAlister
He was building his own castle, and for better or worse, the harpy wormed her way into his world and became its tower.
~ Ilona Andrews
A line from my favorite book came to mind. Have fun storming the castle, Hugh.
~ Ilona Andrews
The point of having a castle isn't hiding inside its walls; it's being worthy of it.
~ Ilona Andrews
I could ask the Pack and the Witches for help, but they would expect some sort of strategy besides "let's all run at Roland's castle and get killed.
~ Ilona Andrews
It was as if a medieval castle and a Southern-belle, antebellum mansion had a baby and it had been delivered into the world by a gothic wedding-cake decorator.
~ Ilona Andrews
When it was announced that I was going to be on 'Castle,' there were immediate messages on all the TV news sites from 'Firefly' fans hoping for a nod to the series - some encrypted business just for them! I can't promise that, but I can say that a few people out there might get a thrill.
~ Gina Torres
Love is the castle, doubt is the moat, desire is the paddle and hope is the boat.
~ Kellie Elmore
The Flamingo, as Siegel named his hotel, was a castle in the wasteland with a lot of tamed water nearby. And
~ Tim Powers
like two r's trapped in a spanish songbook, tilli and max lurked in their shoebox castle, waiting to be rolled.
~ Tom Robbins
LADY CROOM: You have been reading too many novels by Mrs Radcliffe, that is my opinion. This is a garden for The Castle of Otranto or The Mysteries of Udolpho -- CHATER: The Castle of Otranto, my lady, is by Horace Walpole. NOAKES: (Thrilled) Mr Walpole the gardener?! LADY CROOM: Mr Chater, you are a welcome guest at Sidley Park but while you are one, The Castle of Otranto was written by whomsoever I say it was, otherwise what is the point of being a guest or having one?
~ Tom Stoppard
Twelve pillars of the castle of time will bear. Twelve creatures rule land and sea. The eagle is ready to soar in the air, Five's the foundation and also the key. In the Circle of Twelve, Number Twelve becomes Two. The hawk hatches seventh, yet Three is the clue.
~ Kerstin Gier
Doce columnas soportan el castillo del tiempo. Doce animales gobiernan el castillo. El águila está ya lista para alzarse. El cinco es la llave y también es la base. Así, en el Círculo de los Doce, es el dos el doce. Y al halcón, que ocupa el séptimo lugar, el número tres hay que asignar. De los Escritos secretos del conde de Saint Germain.
~ Kerstin Gier
You're right, Simon. Thank you for coming. (Sin) (Simon threw himself against the stone wall, his face a mask of shock and dismay.) Callie, quick, take cover, love. The castle is doomed. Sin said thank you to me. The end of the earth is upon us. (He crossed himself.) Hail Mary full of grace. (Simon)
~ Kinley MacGregor
What are we doing?" Simon asked as they followed the cart across the castle's bailey and into London. "We're following yon wagon," Sin answered. "Why?" "Because it is in front of us." "Well, that certainly answers that. 'Twould be difficult to follow the cart if it were behind us." -Simon & Sin
~ Kinley MacGregor
My reason understands very well that I should not go on living any longer. It's amazing that I should still have my reason. But this reason is as fragile as a castle of sand by the seaside that the rising tide begins to wash over. Another two or three large waves and it will disappear without a trace.
~ Kobo Abe
I rather fancy the story of Laurelyn the Moondreamer and how she built a castle of silver moonbeams, don't you? Silver-mind it was called.
~ Kristen Britain
Ma nel castello delli antichi Signori, dopo il veleno antico, il ferro, e i libri del male, erano dolci, nobili donne: ed era la bimba che tanto aveva sognato, e così amaramente pianto: e l'immagine benedicente di Lei, che a ognuno sovviene: e nell'ora di male e di guerra e nell'ora che ha morte, stanco, il nostro pensiero mortale.››
~ Carlo Emilio Gadda
Bring on your storm, my lord-and recall, if you do, the name of this castle"-Ser Courtnay Penrose at Storm's End.
~ George R.R. Martin
I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow.
~ George R.R. Martin