Árdís

“One by one, the snowflakes floated down on to his warm snout, and melted. He reached out to grab them so he could admire them for a fleeting moment. He looked towards the sky and watched them drift down towards him, more and more, soft and light as a feather. ‘So that’s how it works,’ thought Moomintroll. ‘And I thought somehow that the snow grew from the ground up!”
― Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“It is not good for ones morals to see bad acting”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray