Jen

“Here your feet walked on the earth instead of on cobblestones, here you touched trees instead of houses, here you could look all around and around and around instead of only ahead or behind. This place smelled of the world, rather than of people.”
― Anne Eekhout, Mary & the Birth of Frankenstein

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring