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  • #1
    Terry Pratchett
    “It was usually a case of heir today, gone tomorrow.”
    Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

  • #2
    Terry Pratchett
    “It’s not all peeling grapes, being a handmaiden,” said Ptraci. “The first lesson we learn is, when the master has had a long hard day it is not the best time to suggest the Congress of the Fox and the Persimmon. Who says you have to do anything?”
    Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

  • #3
    Terry Pratchett
    “Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.”
    Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

  • #4
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”
    Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

  • #5
    Terry Pratchett
    “Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.”
    Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

  • #6
    Terry Pratchett
    “People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”
    Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

  • #7
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Where there's life there's hope.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
    Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

  • #18
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

  • #19
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
    "A cage," [Éowyn] 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, The Return of the King

  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #23
    “We shouldn't have to go around congratulating each other for behaving with basic human dignity.”
    Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

  • #24
    “Senlin did not believe in that sort of love: sudden and selfish and insatiable. Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete.”
    Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

  • #25
    “It is easier to accept who you’ve become than to recollect who you were.”
    Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

  • #26
    “Never let a rigid itinerary discourage you from an unexpected adventure.”
    Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

  • #27
    “Learning starts with failure.”
    Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

  • #28
    “I’m counting on greed and egotism, forces that are as reliable as gravity”
    Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

  • #29
    “We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd.”
    Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

  • #30
    “The man or woman who is rarely lost, rarely discovers anything new.”
    Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx



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