Andrew V

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and 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 us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses