Daisy Everard

“But if you would know, I am turning aside soon. I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time. He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone doomed to rolling. But my rolling days are ending, and now we shall have much to say to one another.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I like meeting new people as it means every day is a new opportunity to redeem yourself, to make a fresh start at being seen as a normal woman and practice at it. It's when people get to know you that they realise something seriously off and that's harder to rectify”
― Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

“He wonders how much a man's life is the story he tells himself about himself”
― Andrew Miller, Pure

“It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.'
'yet seldom do they fail of their seed.' said Legolas. 'And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked for”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King Jigsaw Book