Shannan

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There's an autumnal quality throughout the whole of The Lord of the Rings, in one case a character says the story continues but I seem to have dropped out of it … however, everything is declining, fading, at least towards the end of the Third Age. Every choice tends to the upsetting of some tradition. Now this seems to me to be somewhat like Tennyson's "the old order changeth, yielding place to new, and God fulfills himself in many ways". Where is God in The Lord of the Rings?

He's mentioned once or twice.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, donating blood.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto

“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.”
― Arnold H. Glasgow