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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 58da054 | The trees do not like strangers. They watch you. They are usually content merely to watch you, as long as daylight lasts, and don't do much. Occasionally the most unfriendly ones may drop a branch, or stick a root out, or grasp at you with a long trailer. But at night things can be most alarming, or so i am told. | j-r-r-tolkien the-fellowship-of-the-ring the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5cdb861 | You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if you ask for it. It is too great a matter for me | frodo-baggins galadriel j-r-r-tolkien the-fellowship-of-the-ring the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 13f8a24 | A light like the glint of water on dewy grass flashed from under her feet as she danced. | j-r-r-tolkien the-fellowship-of-the-ring the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0707854 | The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| b5c375a | Go now, and die in what way seems best to you. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8bb4788 | No, I am afraid not, Sam," said Frodo. "At least, I know that such things happened, but I cannot see them. No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades." | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 5b030e0 | For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f6239c0 | And though he liked drawing trees he liked most of all to be with trees. He would climb them, lean against them, even talk to them. It saddened him to discover the not everyone shared his feelings towards them. | Humphrey Carpenter | ||
| 631b83e | I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| df64558 | I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.' 'What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said. 'To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 868d296 | The world is not ending. Not if, as Astounding Science Fiction used to suggest, humans are bright enough to think our way out of the problems we think ourselves into. I | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 279b65a | Behind them were the lights of the market, the lanterns and candles and witch-lights and fairy glitter, like a dream of the night sky brought down to earth. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3addbd4 | Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman | neil-gaiman | Kyle Cassidy | |
| d1827bf | I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back. | truth | neil gaiman | |
| 9f63658 | I still feels like I done when I was a tiny slip of a thing, making daisy chains in the old pasture. You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d0f3b3e | I know it's crooked, but it's the only game in town. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2ed55fd | Silas continued, in his voice like velvet, "You had parents. An older sister. They were killed. I believe that you were to have been killed as well, and that you were not was due to chance, and the intervention of the Owenses." "And you," said Bod, who had had that night described to him over the years by many people, some of whom had even been there. It had been a big night in the graveyard. Silas said, "Out there, the man who killed your .. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3dee5a3 | Remember your name. Do not lose hope--what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams Trust your heart, and trust your story. [...] Do not forget your manners. Do not look back. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 619817f | Still, every little bit helps, as the old woman said when she pissed in the sea. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6281775 | In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem in a strange book. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| afc2b8e | There is nothing to be frightened of," said the Rajah. "Very few tigers are man-eaters." "But I am," said the tiger. "You might be lying," said the Rajah. "I might be," said the tiger. "But I'm not." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 00dd166 | But she knew also that it would not be wise to begin her life with Tristan by arguing with his mother. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4705fb4 | I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words. | knowledge | Neil Gaiman | |
| ec558e2 | There are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence." "They kill themselves, you mean?" said Bod. He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid. "Indeed." "Does it work? Are they happier dead?" "Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go an.. | suicide | Neil Gaiman | |
| c53b36b | Old but contented, the face of a man who had sipped life's vinegar and found it, by and large, to be mostly whiskey, and good whiskey at that. | whiskey | Neil Gaiman | |
| 2be8384 | P'raps it will be like that and p'raps it won't. And p'raps if it is, it would have been like that anyway. I don't care. I'm still going to wait here for Lettie Hempstock, and she's going to come back to me. And if I die here, then I still die waiting for her, and that's a better way to go than you and all you stupid horrible things tearing me to bits because I've got something inside me that I don't even want. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4c57251 | She took my hands in her, then, and squeezed them. 'But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't listen to them. Well done. That's quality, that is,' and she sounded proud. In that moment I forgot my hunger and I forgot my fear. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 89b291b | She wondered whether cats could all talk where she came from and just chose not to, or whether they could only walk when they were here - wherever here was. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5ba27d7 | I cried until I was all cried out. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| df21d23 | I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b9aa0e0 | All things want to open. You must feel that need, and use it... And then, suddenly, she understands, and, somewhere in her heart, she lets it be what it wants to be...and it opens. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 7956468 | One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irritably into the middle of the flames, which made Thor feel slightly better and made all the dwarfs feel much worse. | dwarfs feelings fire flames murder prye thor | Neil Gaiman | |
| 8fb995a | And all the time we spent in this place would fade and vanish, like a dawn dream on waking that colours the day but cannot be touched or remembered. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2d8eddb | Giving voice to the truth of her past meant opening the door to the future. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| eba24cc | without music he felt aimless and adrift. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 51a7994 | Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| b85fd61 | The imagination is always the best torturer. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 9bf6058 | a leader must look and act the part. | David McCullough | ||
| 35387c0 | I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene | revolutionary | David McCullough | |
| 1232ee0 | Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that. | David McCullough | ||
| ffe821d | as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established | george-washington president | David McCullough | |
| a1adfd8 | As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the oldest functioning written constitution in the world. | David McCullough | ||
| de4d775 | I needed somebody without any preconceived ideas. But I also needed somebody with a mind of her own." The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover. Strength and vulnerability, in equal measures." | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| f037b29 | Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about--however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content. | Herman Melville |