“You do not know your danger, Theoden. These hobbits will sit on the edge of ruin and discuss the pleasures of the table, or the small doings of their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers, and remoter cousins to the ninth degree, if you encourage them with undue patience.”
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“But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
“Belief isn’t simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief—what is faith—if you don’t continue in it after failure?” Vin frowned. “Anyone can believe in someone, or something, that always succeeds, Mistress. But failure… ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value, I think.”
― Mistborn: The Final Empire
― Mistborn: The Final Empire
“The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
“It's like - I don't know - like it's all new to him, or like, you know, if you came in during the middle of a movie -
Sh-sh-sure, you'd want to see the start, Bill said.”
― It
Sh-sh-sure, you'd want to see the start, Bill said.”
― It
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