“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“It has always been forever, for me, Sassenach,” he said simply.”
― Voyager
― Voyager
“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
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