Still on my user picture updating quest...

[conuly]

Need help. Does anybody have any quotes that'd go well with this icon?

Edit: I suppose there's "Where are our castles now, where are our towers?", which is appropriate enough given the decrepit state of that poor building.

Comments

[yuki-onna.livejournal.com]

"A very very very fine house"?

[conuly]

It would be if it were fixed up, wouldn't it? Or a school. You could have dorms in the towers, classes in the main building and the other building on the grounds.

[yuki-onna.livejournal.com]

It looks nice in the picture, but I guess that's deceiving.

[conuly]

It's got no glass in the windows, and people have been going in there and wreaking havoc for years. And it's got pigeons.

I really want to buy that place and fix it up. But I haven't the money, of course.

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Hogwarts!

(And I was going to say that even before your comment)

[conuly]

But without the magic. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I wanna do it. I just need lots of people to invest money, and a few teachers.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

it would be to much like hogwarts i think.

[conuly]

Don't be silly. There'd be no magic.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

heh, knowing you...yeah sure there wouldn't

A bit long, but...

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids ar supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

-- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

Re: A bit long, but...

[conuly]

Nice, but too long, thankies.

Re: A bit long, but...

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

I knew it was, but I just love that quote so much, and I thought of it right away... not that I'm morbid or anything.

[katschakai.livejournal.com]

Lost but not forgotten (?)

[rpeate.livejournal.com]

I prefer:

"It's the tower for you!"

[conuly]

I like it, but I really think this icon merits a serious quote. Otherwise I'd just go with "yonder is... zer castle!" and be done with it, y'know?

[rpeate.livejournal.com]

I know. :P

[beetlebomb.livejournal.com]

Your icon rocks!! In TOronto we have Casa Loma and the Thousand Islands have Boldt Casle. I could kick myself for not getting out of the boat and looking at it while we were there!! Apparantly there's a casle in Hamilton too, which I've never seen.

[conuly]

Of course it does. That's because it's a really cool castle.

[yuki-onna.livejournal.com]

"A very very very fine house"?

[conuly]

It would be if it were fixed up, wouldn't it? Or a school. You could have dorms in the towers, classes in the main building and the other building on the grounds.

[yuki-onna.livejournal.com]

It looks nice in the picture, but I guess that's deceiving.

[conuly]

It's got no glass in the windows, and people have been going in there and wreaking havoc for years. And it's got pigeons.

I really want to buy that place and fix it up. But I haven't the money, of course.

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Hogwarts!

(And I was going to say that even before your comment)

[conuly]

But without the magic. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I wanna do it. I just need lots of people to invest money, and a few teachers.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

it would be to much like hogwarts i think.

[conuly]

Don't be silly. There'd be no magic.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

heh, knowing you...yeah sure there wouldn't

A bit long, but...

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids ar supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

-- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

Re: A bit long, but...

[conuly]

Nice, but too long, thankies.

Re: A bit long, but...

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

I knew it was, but I just love that quote so much, and I thought of it right away... not that I'm morbid or anything.

[katschakai.livejournal.com]

Lost but not forgotten (?)

[rpeate.livejournal.com]

I prefer:

"It's the tower for you!"

[conuly]

I like it, but I really think this icon merits a serious quote. Otherwise I'd just go with "yonder is... zer castle!" and be done with it, y'know?

[rpeate.livejournal.com]

I know. :P

[beetlebomb.livejournal.com]

Your icon rocks!! In TOronto we have Casa Loma and the Thousand Islands have Boldt Casle. I could kick myself for not getting out of the boat and looking at it while we were there!! Apparantly there's a casle in Hamilton too, which I've never seen.

[conuly]

Of course it does. That's because it's a really cool castle.