Karol E.

“I never don’t not clean my sword,”
― S.D. Smith, The First Fowler

“Suddenly, caught by the level beams, Frodo saw the old king’s head: it was lying rolled away by the roadside. ‘Look, Sam!’ he cried, startled into speech. ‘Look! The king has got a crown again!’

“The eyes were hollow and the carven beard was broken, but about the high stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed.

“‘They cannot conquer for ever!’ said Frodo.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Picket,” he said quietly, “stay angry. It’s okay if it’s at me, for now. If you aren’t angry about the wicked things happening in the world all around, then you don’t have a soul.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“In exile, the road home lies through language, through dreams.”
― Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet