“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“He told Trout about people he'd heard of in the area who grabbed live copperheads and rattlesnakes during church services, to show how much they believed that Jesus would protect them.
'Takes all kinds of people to make up a world,' said Trout.”
― Breakfast of Champions
'Takes all kinds of people to make up a world,' said Trout.”
― Breakfast of Champions
“Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
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