Amélie

“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real things of its own. I don't think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkein

“Then there had been the slowdown; an accumulation, as in sluggish rivers. Things ended up in this house that hadn't been needed in their city life but that they couldn't simply throw out. Layers of sediment, over thirty years of it, had sifted in during springs and summers and falls and springs and summers, and now Nell must dig down through these layers, excavate them, as if the house has been buried under the ash from a volcanic eruption.”
― Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

“They wouldn't want you to mope, would they? Those who didn't make it. Not after all they did for you, even if they did nothing but die, and unwillingly, and not for you.”
― Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

“Îmi dau seama și azi că toate perioadele vieții sunt necesare pentru a făuri un caracter și o personalitate; bucuria e tot atât de folositoare ca durerea.”
― Maria, Regina României, Povestea vieții mele