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“And whatever you do, don’t close your eyes.'

'What happens if I close my eyes?'

'You miss the fun.”
― Jessica Townsend, Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Morrigan's night held only one possibility. Like every other child born precisely eleven years ago on the last Eventide, when the clock struck midnight she would die-the eleven short years of her doomed life complete; her curse finally fulfilled.”
― Jessica Townsend, Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again