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| 18d815a | a certain measure of contempt was attached to men who continued their philandering after marriage. In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once. | Edith Wharton | ||
| a62f3be | But they're too shy to speak when my mother-in-law doesn't; sometimes they open their mouths to begin, but they never get as far as the first sentence. You must get used to an ocean of silence, and just swim about in it as well as you can. | Edith Wharton | ||
| f290ce9 | Something in truth lay dead between them--the love she had killed in him and could no longer call to life. But something lived between them also, and leaped up in her like an imperishable flame: it was the love his love had kindled, the passion of her soul for his. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 693d18a | She is still a bundle of engaging possibilities rather than a finished picture. Of the mother there is nothing to say, for that excellent lady evidently requires familiar surroundings to bring out such small individuality as she possesses. In the unfamiliar she becomes invisible; and Longlands and she will never be visible to each other. | Edith Wharton | ||
| aab71d5 | There was in him a slumbering spark of sociability which the long Starkfield winters had not yet extinguished. By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 29d432e | Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them--children, duties, visits, bores, relations--the things that protect married people from each other. We've been too close together--that has been our sin. We've seen the nakedness of each other's souls. | madness marriage | Edith Wharton | |
| 8900884 | Honorius Hatchard had been old Miss Hatchard's great-uncle; though she would undoubtedly have reversed the phrase, and put forward, as her only claim to distinction, the fact that she was his great-niece. For Honorius Hatchard, in the early years of the nineteenth century, had enjoyed a modest celebrity. As the marble tablet in the interior of the library informed its infrequent visitors, he had possessed marked literary gifts, written a se.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2a2edf0 | She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 8b38a86 | But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing . . . | lawrence-selden lily-bart the-house-of-mirth | Edith Wharton | |
| 7d9e957 | Oh, certainly, 'The Wings of Death' is not amusing," ventured Mrs. Leveret, whose manner of putting forth an opinion was like that of an obliging salesman with a variety of other styles to submit if his first selection does not suit." -- | Edith Wharton | ||
| 75dd072 | Belief in mysteries--all manner of mysteries--is the only lasting luxury in life. | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | ||
| 96d82f3 | We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own. | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | ||
| 1367ff1 | The man Jack was, above all things, a professional, or so he told himself, | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 40567ed | Farewell!' he said to Gandalf. 'I go to find the Sun!' Then swift as a runner over firm sand he shot away, and quickly overtaking the toiling men, with a wave of his hand he passed them, and sped into the distance, and vanished round the rocky turn. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 66406d3 | Behind that, there was something else at work, beyond any design of the ring maker. I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was to find the ring, and by its maker. In which case you also were to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought. | J. R. R. Tolkien | ||
| be577cd | One ring to rule them all. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 35ef086 | These too in their time shall find that all that they do redounds at the end only to the glory of my work. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3c250c8 | The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from hand to hand were of that sort. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 54cbc13 | Satu Cincin 'tuk menguasai mereka semua, Satu Cincin 'tuk menemukan mereka semua, Satu Cincin 'tuk membawa mereka semua dan mengikat mereka dalam Kegelapan | the-fellowship-of-the-ring the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0414402 | In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another. | nihilism | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| c0a082e | Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between Haleth and those who have devoured her kin, then the ways of the Eldar are strange to Men. | sarcasm | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 55f69f8 | The time of my thought is my own to spend. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6d8b2aa | Sing, all ye children of the West, for your king shall come again, and he shall dwell among you, all the days of your life. And the Tree that was withered shall be renewed, and he shall plant it in the high places, and the City shall be blessed. Sing, all ye people! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6fe817c | Seldom will Orcs journey in the open under the sun, yet these have done so,' said Legolas. 'Certainly they will not rest by night. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c9febb9 | They tried to pierce your heart with a Morgul-knife which remains in the wound. If they had succeeded, you would have become like they are, only weaker and under their command. You would have became a wraith under the dominion of the Dark Lord. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9b46437 | Bilbo was sadly reflecting that adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine... | hardship may-sunshine ponies travel | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| e7cf2d0 | No, he will not!" said Frodo. "I shall not ride him, if I am to be carried off to Rivendell or anywhere else, leaving my friends behind in danger." Glorfindel smiled. "I doubt very much," he said, "if your friends would be in danger if you were not with them! The pursuit would follow you and leave us in peace, I think. It is you, Frodo, and that which you bear that brings us all in peril." | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 44a8b4c | Kili and Fili rushed for their bags and brought back little fiddles; Dori, Nori, and Ori brought out flutes from somewhere inside their coats; Bombur produced a drum | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ed9e417 | The dark filled all the room, and the fire died down, and the shadows were lost, and still they played on. And suddenly | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| af57fdb | The eagles are coming! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 34e598d | Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together,' said Merry. 'We have left all the rest behind, one after another. It seems almost like a dream that has slowly faded.' 'Not to me,' said Frodo. 'To me it feels more like falling asleep again. | sadness | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| f98c424 | Eowyn ?No me amais, o no quereis amarme? -Queria el amor de otro hombre -respondio ella-. Mas no quiero la piedad de ninguno. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8af8ce9 | Glorfindel smiled. 'I doubt very much,' he said, 'if your friends would be in danger if you were not with them! The pursuit would follow you and leave us in peace, I think. It is you, Frodo, and that which you bear that brings us all in peril. | glorfindel j-r-r-tolkien peril the-fellowship-of-the-ring the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| ab71126 | Sam looked at his master with approval, but also with surprise: there was a look in his face and a tone in his voice that he had not known before. It had always been a notion of his that the kindness of dear Mr. Frodo was of such a high degree that it must imply a fair measure of blindness. Of course, he also firmly held the incompatible belief that Mr. Frodo was the wisest person in the world (with the possible exception of Old Mr. Bilbo a.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c164cfb | While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate. | persistence tolkien | Tom Shippey | |
| e166fd7 | Face your life Its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 153668c | Where is he?' said Frodo, looking round, as if he expected a masked and sinister figure to come out of a cupboard. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 45cb0c5 | I don't know how long we shall take to - to finish,' said Frodo. 'We were miserably delayed in the hills. But Samwise Gamgee, my dear hobbit - indeed, Sam my dearest hobbit, friend of friends - I do not think we need give thought to what comes after that. To do the job as you put it - what hope is there that we ever shall? And if we do, who knows what will come of that? If the One goes into the Fire, and we are at hand? I ask you, Sam, are .. | j-r-r-tolkien sam the-lord-of-the-rings the-two-towers | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 4caf750 | I am commanded to go to the land of Mordor, and therefore I shall go,' said Frodo. 'If there is only one way, then I must take it. What comes after must come. | j-r-r-tolkien the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| ab00a48 | Farewell!" they cried, "wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply." | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| bbb6b9d | You speak evil of that which is fair beyond the reach of your thought, and only little wit can excuse you. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2fff5b7 | These are Rustbell Rabbits! I'd like to see them try!!! | humor original | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 3cbd7d7 | Just a plain hobbit you look,' said Bilbo. 'But there is more about you now than appears on the surface. Good luck to you! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 73447c7 | There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his fires were low in slumber. | J.R.R. Tolkien |