Andrew

“If life weren’t full of so much beauty—the sweet mischief in Mina’s gaze, wild horses running down the blue beaches of everywhere, a spell of spring rain, the lilac dawn and its twin in dusk, the silk of a first kiss, Gabriel’s knee grazing mine, the stupidity and ephemerality and naïve violence of youth, of want, and children laughing, skipping beneath the curtain call of this world—then we wouldn’t cling to life so.”
― Hannah Lillith Assadi, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells

“Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson