Millie Florence > Millie's Quotes

“Books, I think, are what magic smells like.”
― Millie Florence, Honey Butter

“Time has a way of changing our minds.”
― Millie Florence, Honey Butter

“It's a wonderful thought that everyday has something to celebrate.”
― Millie Florence, Honey Butter

“She had met people who had tried to fit in. She had met people who tried to stand out. But until then she had never met anyone who simply tried to be themselves without expecting anything from those around
them. It was a refreshing experience.”
― Millie Florence, Honey Butter

“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“I don’t like anything here at all.” said Frodo, “step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and water all seem accursed. But so our path is laid.”

“Yes, that’s so,” said Sam, “And we shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started. But I suppose it’s often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo, adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and
looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on, and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same; like old Mr Bilbo. But those aren’t always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in! I wonder what sort of a tale we’ve fallen into?”

“I wonder,” said Frodo, “But I don’t know. And that’s the way of a real tale. Take any one that you’re fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don’t know. And you don’t want them to.”
― Tolkien John Ronald Reuel, The Lord of the Rings

“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: 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 to us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.
Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“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

“Nothing can match the joy of a forest in the
morning.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“No one who loves the woods stays on the path,”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“Change is not a gate we pass through, it is the definition of life.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“Anything can be art, it just might be bad art.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“The trees were dappling again. They loved to dapple, it seemed to be their favorite pastime.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“To worry constantly about danger and evil is danger and evil in itself.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“Bravery can only be called so if it is needed. If you do something simply to prove that you can, it may be impressive or daring, but it is not brave.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“Darkness is part of this life, but so is light.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“The book she held had collapsed against her chest, planted like a shield between her tender heart and all that discouraged and despaired.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“I'm not a grownup, just a kid who has been around for a while.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“Don't be afraid of advice! It's really quite a harmless creature as long as you're careful about what you do with it.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“You can get lost in any library, no matter the size. But the more lost you are, the more things you'll find.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“There are no true villains in this world, only heroes and their opinions.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“A troubled mind can make rocket science out of nearly anything.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“A shared cup of laughter, dear Reader, is the sunbeam that causes the flower of friendship to open its petals and peep out.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“There is always light in the midst of darkness, even if it is only a pinpoint int he distance.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“There is always light in the midst of the Darkness, even if it’s only a pinpoint in the distance. And when it seems as if there isn’t, it’s just an illusion. Just a lie that the Darkness wants you to believe. Break through the illusion. Remember that you’re growing through it and towards the light. You are always growing towards the light.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen

“There is always light to be found in unexpected places.”
― Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Lost Dreamer

“The more one discovers, the more one realizes how much more there is to discover.”
― Millie Florence, Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen