Arid

“A good novel rushes you forward like a
skiff down a stream, and you arrive at the end, perhaps breathless, but
unexhausted.”
― Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

“Como magullados,
sensibles al tacto; en un momento nos dimos la mano y fue terrible.”
― Julio Cortázar

“I cannot,” said Merry. “I have never seen them. I have never been out of my land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don’t think I should have had the heart to leave it.”

“Not even to see fair Lothlórien?” said Haldir. “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J R R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (3 Vol) and the Hobbit

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield