Becky Baker

“Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters,precious, eh, what's taters?"
"Po-ta-toes!" said Sam.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“I do not know how long he kept on like this, hating to go on, not daring to stop, on, on, until he was tireder than tired. It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.”
― Tolkein J. R. R., J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

“If I understand aright all that I have heard,’ he said, ‘I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will. This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great. Who of all the Wise could have foreseen it? Or, if they are wise, why should they expect to know it, until the hour has struck?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Are you all right? I said, wishing I could think of something more or better to say than that.
“I have to be, don’t I?” she said. “For the ones who are still alive.”
To some it might’ve seemed callous, the way she boxed up her pain and set it aside, but I knew her well enough now to understand. She had a heart the size of France, and the lucky few whom she loved with it were loved with every square inch-but its size made it dangerous, too. If she let it feel everything, she’d be wrecked. So she had to tame it, shush it, shut it up. Float the worst pain pains off to an island that was quickly filling with them, where she would go to live one day.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls