“The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”
― The Shining
― The Shining
“He liked the way his laughter sounded with theirs. It was a sound he had never heard before: not mingled laughter—he had heard that lots of times—but mingled laughter of which his own was a part.”
― It
― It
“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
“he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be a grownup and able to consider the mystery of childhood...its beliefs and desires.”
― It
― It
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