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| d99e41c | I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first built in the fourteenth century. I was told it hadn't weathered well at all, and had in fact been burnt to the ground twice in this century. "So it isn't the original building?" I had asked my Japanese guide. "But yes, of course it is," he insisted, rather surp.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 40ef362 | Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3f4f079 | I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It isn't right to see Elves now, nor dragons, nor mountains, that I want - I don't rightly know what I want: but I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me. | inspirational-attitude samwise-the-brave the-shire sam-gamgee hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2325d57 | Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 7571abf | And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Iluvatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable stars. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c20f5b7 | Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.' 'Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,' said Gandalf. 'I fear it may be so with mine,' said Frodo. 'There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the sam.. | pain return-of-the-king frodo gandalf the-lord-of-the-rings j-r-r-tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 9e77835 | Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 20416e7 | The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough. | David McCullough | ||
| 77463f1 | But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy. | Herman Melville | ||
| 3fd727b | Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 69554a2 | Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 446a4df | I care so much I'm sick. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8f19f74 | I'm remarrying you, Lil. Fuck, I'd remarry you a hundred times until it stuck. | love-story college-romance childhood-friends | Krista Ritchie | |
| 9140e21 | But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn't felt it go away, as if he'd known the best moment to let go. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 3f4890e | And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| dacc44c | I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our disconte.. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 5b3a851 | For you, a thousand times over." Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything alright. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. But I'll take it. With open arms." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 134d2e1 | it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. | loss prayer reality grieving-mother | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 6aea718 | I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants. | pariah maurice discrimination outcast rejection novel | E.M. Forster | |
| a2e5713 | A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. | E.M. Forster | ||
| f5eede9 | Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. | passion writing love | E.M. Forster | |
| 3b601d5 | Behind every bad law, a deep fear. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| b7dca0f | I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period). | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 89685b6 | Shh! Listen! Someone's coming! I think -- I think it might be us! | time-turner time-travel | J.K. Rowling | |
| 18b0b03 | Harry uttered an inarticulate yell of rage: In that instant, he cared not whether he lived or died. Pushing himself to his feet again, he staggered blindly toward Snape, the man he now hated as much as he hated Voldemort himself -- " -- !" Snape flicked his wand and the curse was repelled yet again; but Harry was mere feet away now and he could see Snape's face clearly at last: He was no longer sneering or jeering; the blazing flames showe.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 7ea40df | You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a14eb39 | Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1d8ae2e | Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b3a2fd7 | Either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 526b997 | Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention aand innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. | J. K. Rowling | ||
| f84f294 | Tina: Can you please tell me you took care of the No-Maj? Newt: The what? Tina: The No-Maj! No-magic -- the non-wizard! Newt: Oh sorry, we call them Muggles. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1432142 | You know how I think they choose people for Gryffindor team?" said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff another penalty for now reason at all. "It's people they feel sorry for. See, there's Potter, who's got no parents, then there's the Weasleys, who've got no money - you should be on the team, Longbottom, you've got no brains." | funny longbottom neville malfoy | J.K. Rowling | |
| 17453ac | It sort of floated toward me," said Ron, illustrating the movement with his free index finger, "right to my chest, and then -- it just went straight through. It was here," he touched a point close to his heart, "I could feel it, it was hot. And once it was inside me I knew what I was supposed to do, I knew it would take me where I needed to go. So I Disapparated and came out on the side of a hill. There was snow everywhere. . . ." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 061f34b | Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione [...] "Proud?" said Harry. "Are you mad? All those times I could've died, and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious..." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2c2f66e | A world without dragons is a world not worth living in. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| a3e20bb | You still think love can save us. It's more killing than hate. Hate is so clean, so simple. Like being in the ring. With hate, you just keep hitting. You hit until they stop hitting back. With love... They never stop. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 8f62776 | Nothing about this entire scenario made sense. But who cares? Once in a while, everyone was entitled to be a bit flaky, and now it was his turn. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| d18bdb9 | in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well. | romantic | Nicholas Sparks | |
| b8468d2 | But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost her nerve. Taking his hand, she pulled him toward her, near enough to feel his body against her. She looked up at him, tilting her head slightly as she leaned in. Mike, recognizing what was happening but still having trouble believing it, tilted his head and closed his eyes, their faces drawing near. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b918888 | Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 5642862 | Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're like that catfish with lungs. Take us out of our environment and we can grow whatever body parts we need to survive. After Jersey the rest of the country's a piece of cake. You want to send someone into a fallout zone? Get him from Jersey. He'll be fine. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 9e9928d | Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: 'I am Who am.' The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: 'I am who am not.' Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side. | the-enemy the-devil satan sin | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 46c06ce | Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts. | the-world humans | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| eaff6e4 | It is He Who sent down to thee, in truth, the Book (Quran), confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion (Quran) (of judgment between right and wrong). - Holy Quran 3:3 | jesus moses quran muhammad islam | Anonymous |