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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Nikki’s Quotes

“Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

tags: fiction, narrative, point-of-view, setting, technique, writing

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“Abusers do not need to be, and rarely are, cackling maniacs. They just need to want something and not care how they get it.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

tags: abuse, abuse-survivors

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“Squandering time is a luxury of profligate youth, when the years are to us as dollars are to billionaires. Doing the same thing in middle age just makes you nervous, not with vague puritan guilt but the more urgent worry that you're running out of time, a deadline you can feel in your cells.”
― Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

tags: deadline, guilt, middle-age, seize-the-day, wisdom, youth

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“What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it’s too late?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: interview, selfishness, travel

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“We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

tags: complexity, evil, good, humanity, representation, wrongdoing

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