Ashley

“it was a hobbit-hole”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“That there’s so much hope even when it doesn’t seem like it.” He was gobsmacked. “How do you mean?” “The little girl. She wasn’t scared of me. She was nice. She didn’t care what I looked like. That means she can make up her own mind. Maybe that woman will tell her I’m bad. And maybe she’ll believe it. Or maybe she won’t believe it at all. Arthur told me that in order to change the minds of many, you have to first start with the minds of few. She’s just one person. But so is the lady.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“All wizards are crazy. Not the quaint, colloquial “crazy” where you have an offbeat sense of humor and wear brightly colored socks, not mild eccentricity coupled with a general lack of fashion sense. Not “you don’t have to be crazy to work here, but it helps.” Wizards aren’t weird. They are genuinely, legitimately, around the bend. This is because magic is a form of psychosis.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nine Goblins: A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief

“very few goblins have ever mastered the ability to tell left from right without stopping to think about it. So when somebody yells, “Left foot, right foot!” there is generally a long silence while the goblins all try to remember which is which.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nine Goblins: A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief