(Sop(hist)rionic)

"You know you're perfectly effulgent."

"I am come of kings; I bear a king's name. My badge is the oak. Do you see my sword? It has slashed the heads off mair [goblins] than you have toes upon your feet. Call up your vermin to your back, sir, and fall on! The sooner the clash begins, the sooner ye'll taste this steel throughout your vitals."

Raven Boys Over Flowers

"I do not think you could be so bad a man," said I, "if you had not all the machinery to be a good one."

Everybody wants it

Plato and the Olympians

[She] was a novelty. [She] was unusual, ridiculous, brilliant, sombre and absurd. [She] was innovation in a stodgy town.

Dear Schober, 

I hear you are not happy and have to sleep off the frenzies of your despair... Although this makes me extraordinarily sad, it does not surprise me in the least, since such is the lot of almost every sensible person in this miserable world.


And now, farewell, Sir Knight; and if you cannot think of me as a man of nice conscience, acknowledge me at least as one of reason and judgement.

“Confound Mrs. Rachael!” said the gentleman. “Let her fly away in a high wind on a broomstick!”

Her simple, careless, childish flow of spirits often made me sad. She seemed to me like a butterfly at play in a flickering bit of sunshine, and mistaking it for broad and eternal summer.

A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me?

I propose that we add Winchesters to our armament. I have a kind of belief in a Winchester when there is any trouble.

He was a novelty. He was unusual, ridiculous, brilliant, sombre and absurd. He was innovation in a stodgy town.

A strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous. The combination is a dreadful one…and he will soon think that he himself is God.

So you put the whole binge to Jeeves and see if he can’t scare up a happy ending somehow. Tell him my future is in his hands, and that if the wedding bells ring out, he can rely on me, even unto half my kingdom.

He had the courage of a lion, and the cunning of a rat; and if he’s not in hell today, there’s no such place. I know but one good point to the man—that he was fond of his wife, and kind to her.