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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fe191bd | Why couldn't he stop talking and let them drink his health? | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d9f22ce | 1541 In this year 1 on March 1st came at last the Passing of King Elessar. It is said that the beds of Meriadoc and Peregrin were set beside the bed of the great king. Then Legolas built a grey ship in Ithilien, and sailed down Anduin and so over Sea; and with him, it is said, went Gimli the Dwarf. And when that ship passed an end was come in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 966eeed | I will give you a name," he said to it, "and I shall call you Sting." | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8c6183f | But in this at least thou shalt not defy my will: to rule my own end. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f75e954 | Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 347c874 | I found not being able to use a pen or pencil as defeating as the loss of her beak would be to a hen. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c1c6347 | What would you here, unhappy mortal, and for what cause have you left your own land to enter this, which is forbidden to such as you? Can you show reason why my power should not be laid on you in heavy punishment for your insolence and folly?" Then Beren looking up beheld the eyes of Luthien, and his glance went also to the face of Melian; and it seemed to him that words were put into his mouth. Fear left him, and the pride of the eldest ho.. | fantasy luthien silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 151db87 | What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?" "All of them at once," said Bilbo. "And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors, into the bargain." | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0899864 | But to this Orc-work such a life as we lead has brought us. Lawless and fruitless all our deeds have been, serving only ourselves, and feeding hate in our hearts. | orc-work realization | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| be5f5f5 | Straightening, I asked, "What do you believe in?" "Old love songs, best friends, the collected works of J.R.R.Tolkien, crispy pork egg rolls with just the right amount of grease, the Big Boss and eternity." "The Big Boss?" Zachary pointed up, as if to heaven. "Pious,"I teased." | best-friends humor | Cynthia Leitich Smith | |
| 076b1ff | Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world's ending! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 043142d | However it may prove, one must tread the path that need chooses! | lord-of-the-rings tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| c5fa83e | The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears. - Boromir | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 51cc924 | Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0e21ce2 | Do not then stumble at the end of the road. | gandalf | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 15205e6 | The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. 'Some | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| cc1555c | Wizards are always troubled about the future. | wizards | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a56bc47 | There were many paths that led up into those mountains, and many passes over them. But most of the paths were cheats and deceptions and led nowhere or to bad ends; and most of the passes were infested by evil things and dreadful dangers. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3a452c6 | Farmer Giles went home feeling very uncomfortable. He was finding that a local reputation may require keeping up, and that may prove awkward. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0de2088 | and all the stars flowered in the sky. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 08d47f1 | even as he took her hand and kissed it, he fell into sleep. Then a great beauty was revealed in him, so that all who after came there looked on him in wonder; for they saw that the grace of his youth, and the valour of his manhood, and the wisdom and majesty of his age were blended together. And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 643a27a | For Tolkien, Catholicism was not an opinion to which one subscribed but a reality to which one submitted. Quite simply, pseudo-psychology aside, Tolkien remained a Catholic for the simple if disarming reason that he believed Catholicism was true. | catholicism j-r-r-tolkien tolkien | Joseph Pearce | |
| 1c5b50e | There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, and they swing in both directions. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 759b925 | That's the joy of a harlequinade, after all, isn't it? We change our costumes. We change our roles. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| cc4295d | You eternals have long lives, but short memories. The changing people have short lives, but we do not forget. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| ecd9bc0 | He tugged on an imaginary rope,somewhere on the level of his ear, and then jerked his neck to one side, tongue protruding, eyes bulging. As quick pantomimes went, it was disturbing. And then he let go of the rope and smiled his familiar grin. Would you like some potato salad? | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 43c3f45 | mn lmml 'n y`rf lmr kl shy' | الملل | Neil Gaiman | |
| 2d558e3 | Were you always like this?" "Like what?" "A madman. With a time machine." "Oh, no. It took ages until I got the time machine." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6d75450 | When the all-father in eagle form had almost reached the vats, with Suttung immediately behind him, Odin blew some of the mead out of his behind, a splattery wet fart of foul-smelling mead right in Suttung's face, blinding the giant and throwing him off Odin's trail. No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's ass. | hipsterism norse-mythology | Neil Gaiman | |
| 3345746 | Look, see the child's swollen, swollen belly and the flies that crawl at the corners of his eyes, this skeletal limbs: will it make it easier for you to know his name, his age, his dreams, his fears? To see him from the inside? And if it does, are we not doing a disservice to his sister, who lies in the searing dust beside him, a distorted distended caricature of a human child? And there, if we feel for them, are they now more important to .. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 010857d | There," she said, waving her hands at the corridor. The expression of delight on her face was a very bad thing to see."You're wrong! You know where your parents are, do you?" she turned and looked at Coraline. "Now," she said, "you're going to stay here for ever and always." | greed other-mother trouble | Neil Gaiman | |
| b11e4e2 | And then, in a skittering, chittering rush, it came. The hand, running high on its fingertips, scrabbled through the tall grass and up onto a tree stump. It stood there for a moment, like crab tasting the air, and then it made one triumphant, nail-clacking leap onto the center of the tablecloth. Time slowed for Coraline. The white fingers closed around the black key.... | fright hand searching the-other-mother | Neil Gaiman | |
| 866c6b4 | All tomorrows start here. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0f70b57 | I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know." | mothers | Neil Gaiman | |
| b85e917 | These letters and words, when placed in the right order, would conjure all manner of exotic beasts and people from the shadows, would reveal the motives and minds of insects and of cats. They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 320068b | They are simply numbers and cannot thus be right or wrong [...] What I trust that I am saying is that all numbers are by their nature correct. Well, except for Pi, of course. I can't be doing with Pi. Gives me a headache just thinking about it, going on and on and on and on and on.... | pi | Neil Gaiman | |
| d4acbbe | It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. In a week from now, she would have no choices. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f6f3ef7 | I am following my fishie. La la laaaa. Because my fish knows where to go. My fish is the Borghal Rantipole who I made look like a fishie because I am so clever and I can do things like that if I want... La la la... It knows many thingummies. The Borghal Rantipole that is. And now it is inconspicuous too as well. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 440c65b | Tastes like a drunken diabetic's piss,' agreed Wednesday. 'I hate the stuff. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 839525e | But it was a dream, and in dreams, sometimes, you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d820067 | I really don't know what 'I love you' means. I think it means 'Don't leave me here alone'. | love poetry sonnet | Neil Gaiman | |
| efdcb9c | That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger." That's as maybe. But that which does kill us, kills us, and ain't that a bitch..." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 801501c | I think there should be more black characters, and more of all kinds of characters, in fiction. Almost all of the main characters in my novel are black. And there are black characters in featured roles in all the other novels except | Neil Gaiman | ||
| aeaf6ea | A table for TONIGHT should certainly have been booked years before-perhaps, it was implied, by Richard's parents. A table for TONIGHT was impossible: if the pope, the prime minister, and the president of France arrived this evening without a confirmed reservation, even they would be turned out into the street with a continental jeer. | Neil Gaiman |