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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4ab0d82 | I shall have to go. But-" and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- "if you really care about me, you will have to keep that DEAD secret. See? If you don't, if you even breathe a word of what you've heard here, then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted toad and fill the garden full of grass snakes." Sam fell on his knees, trembling. "Get up, Sam!" Said Gandalf. "I have thought of something better than that. Something to keep you quiet, and.. | elves frodo-baggins gandalf samwise-gamgee secret snakes tears toad | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| af56e38 | If you wanted to go on from the end of I think the ring would be your inevitable choice as the link. If then you wanted a large tale, the Ring would at once acquire a capital letter; and the Dark Lord would immediately appear. As he did, unasked, on the hearth at Bag End as soon as I came to that point. So the essential Quest started at once. But I met a lot of things along the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I ha.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 86e8433 | Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c751c0d | On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for th.. | celeborn galadriel lothlorien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 45ade09 | Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul creature come anigh you! And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Good bye! | lord-of-the-rings middle-earth sam tolkien true-love | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 92ffdbe | End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise." -- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings" -- | heaven jrr-tolkien lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 239c208 | A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend. | intention wisdom | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 40328d0 | I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 4be1ad8 | There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| a6c6811 | The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated but enslaved, and Barad-Dur would not have been destroyed but occupied. Saruman, failing to get possession of the Ring, would in the confusion and treacheries of the time have found in Mordor .. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| fecbcdb | One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don't know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground--asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 12e4017 | the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the "nursery," as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused." | fairy-tales-for-adults | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 15c6066 | This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d0c8a15 | It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 7810df2 | You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| a1befcb | In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they had given me that also. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| a724ecb | Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| a1b97f3 | According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do it. Why?" Jefferson asked, as Adams would recount. Reasons enough," Adams said. What can be your reasons?" Reason first: you are a Virginian and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second: I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwis.. | David McCullough | ||
| bade1d0 | Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever. | Herman Melville | ||
| e3a06ce | Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. | Herman Melville | ||
| 0505519 | There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause:-- through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom), then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If. But once gone through, we trace the round again; and are infants, boys, and men, and Ifs eternally. Where lies the final harbor.. | Herman Melville | ||
| b79bf4d | To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. | pain pity | Herman Melville | |
| 664528c | Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7bdeb14 | Good writers touch life often. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 471c856 | Up steps, three, six, nine, twelve! Slap! Their palms hit the library door. * * * They opened the door and stepped in. They stopped. The library deeps lay waiting for them. Out in the world, not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather, anything might happen, always did. Listen! and you heard ten thousand people screaming so high only dogs feathered their ears. A million folk ran toting cannons, .. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 892b1ba | School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts? | school | Ray Bradbury | |
| 48007e3 | Love will fly if held too lightly, love will die if held too tightly. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3e1c9c7 | real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| e3611ff | We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people? | god-s-children the-church | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| b892a95 | w mn mn l yt'ff w ytbrm dh `lm 'n l'shy lmkhtS@ bh dwn swh qd mrt byn 'Sb` w 'mm `ywn mn lys lhm lHq bm`rfth? | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| b62c0cd | You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. | laughter memory rememberance weeping | Kahlil Gibran | |
| ab4ad59 | Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| cd9f26b | For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain? | happiness | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 5173d65 | but was this funny? was this funny? was this funny? why was this funny? why was Sugar Kane funny? why were men dressed as women funny? why were men made up as women funny? why were men staggering in high heels funny? why was Sugar Kane funny, was Sugar Kane the supreme female impersonator? was this funny? why was this funny? why is female funny? why were people going to laugh at Sugar Kane & fall in love with Sugar Kane? why, another time? .. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| c338d8c | What will come, will come. It's how we deal with the shit in between that shapes us. (Savitar) | savitar | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 7eee515 | You want a beer?" she said. A beer! At 3:01 a.m. Ridiculous. "Yes, please." | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 77c1322 | Then, in this vanishingly small moment in the history of the universe, she took my hand, and held it all the way to the subway. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 992aade | Bigger room, darling. Like I said, we need a bigger room. | elena | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 75394d8 | I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was. | humour | Kelley Armstrong | |
| b5e1b21 | All I could think about was him, and how much I wanted this, and how incredibly lucky I was to get it, and how tight I was going to hold onto it. | lucky | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 9b07e02 | You guys are weird," Tori said. Simon sat on the crate beside me. "That's right. We are totally weird and completely uncool. Your popularity is plummeting just by being near us." | simon tori weird | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 9167986 | Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves-for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to be the most beautiful creatures in all the world, and magic besides. They mate very rarely, and no place is more enchanted than one where a unicorn has been born. The last time she had seen another unicorn the young virgins who still came seekin.. | animals beautiful born enchanted forest magic mate nature pool spring time unicorn unicorns vain virgins watching | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 214ca3a | I got a pole and fishing line from under my bed. I came back out of the bedroom and called to Myra, asking her if she could pack me up a lunch because I was going fishing. And I guess you know what she told me. So I left. There weren't many people on the street that late at night, almost nine o'clock, but practically everybody that was up asked me if I was going fishing. I said, why, no, I wasn't, and where did they ever get an idea like th.. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 69e96fd | But you could," Ken said. "You could. We got a fella over in the jail right now for pleasurin' a pig." "Well, I'll be dogged," I said, because I'd heard of things like that but I never had known of no actual cases. "What kind of charges you makin' against him?" Buck said maybe they could charge him with rape. Ken gave him a kind of blank look and said no, they might not be able to make that kind of charge stick. "After all, he might claim h.. | Jim Thompson |