“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Diary
― Diary
“Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
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