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The Hobbit
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something (or so Thorin said to the young dwarves). You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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“The truth about people had not much to do with what they said about themselves, or what others said about them.”
― Desperate Characters
― Desperate Characters
“There is nothing to be gained from regret,” said Mrs Steadman. “The question is where do you go from here?”
― San Francisco Night
― San Francisco Night
“Life, he decided, was never a question of accumulating material things, nor in the struggle for reputation, but in the widening and deepening of perception, increasing the sensitivity of the faculties, of an awareness of the world in which one lives.”
― Flint
― Flint
“It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“Popular wisdom said that there were five stages of grief when a loved one dies: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. But Nightingale knew the five stages didn’t always apply. Sometimes grief just hit you like a train and there were no stages to go through. There was just pain and loneliness and an empty black hole where the loved one had been.”
― Lastnight
― Lastnight
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