LaBelle

“Egyetlen feltétel van, amit el kell fogadnunk: ha a szatírának akár legkisebb nyoma is fellelhető a mesében, akkor is van valami, amiből sohasem szabad tréfát űzni, s ez a kivétel nem más, mint maga a varázserő. Ez az, amit a történetben mindig komolyan kell venni – azaz: nem szabad nevetni rajta, s nem szabad magyarázatot keresni-adni rá.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tree and Leaf

“I have fought the long defeat and brought other people on to fight the long defeat, and I'm not going to stop because we keep losing. Now I actually think sometimes we may win. I don't dislike victory. ... You know, people from our background-like you, like most PIH-ers, like me-we're used to being on a victory team, and actually what we're really trying to do in PIH is to make common cause with the losers. Those are two very different things. We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it's not worth it. So you fight the long defeat.”
― Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

“Magát Tündérföldet talán Varázslat segítségével érthetnénk meg legjobban, de ezen egy igen sajátos hangulat és erő mágiája értendő, mely a lehető legtávolabb áll az izzadságszagú, kísérletező, tudományoskodó bűvészkedés vulgáris eszközkészletétől.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tree and Leaf

“Paul is the model of what should be done. He's not a model for how it has to be done. Let's celebrate him. Let's make sure people are inspired by him. But we can't say anybody should or could be just like him." He added, "Because if the poor have to wait for a lot of people like Paul to come along before they get good health care, they are totally fucked.”
― Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World