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“There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.”
― Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen

“Tell me, Legolas, why did I come on this Quest? Little did I know where the chief peril lay! Truly Elrond spoke, saying that we could not foresee what we might meet upon our road. Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would have never come, had I known the danger of light and joy.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“May I ask you something?" Dr Greysteel nodded."Are you not afraid that it will go out?"

"What will go out?" asked Dr Greysteel.

"The candle," Strange gestured to Dr Greysteel's forehead. "The candle inside your head.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell