Lucia

“You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours – closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyway: there it is. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about the ring. We are horribly afraid–but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Sé que no sé lo que no sé; envidio a aquellos que sabrán más que yo, pero también sé que tendrán que medir, pesar, deducir y desconfiar de sus deducciones exactamente igual que yo, y ver en lo falso parte de lo verdadero, y tener en cuenta en lo verdadero la eterna mixtión de lo falso. Jamás me agarré a una idea por temor al desamparo en que caería sin ella. Nunca aliñé un hecho verdadero con la salsa de la mentira, para hacerme su digestión más fácil.
He soñado mis sueños; no pretendo que sean más que sueños. Me guardé muy bien de hacer de la verdad un ídolo, prefiriendo dejarle su nombre más humilde de exactitud. Mis triunfos y mis riesgos no son los que se cree; existen glorias distintas de la gloria y hogueras distintas de la hoguera. He llegado casi a desconfiar de las palabras. Moriré un poco menos necio de lo que nací.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

“He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that."

"Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam.

"But I am going to Mordor."

"I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring