Dariko

“Well, I am going back into the open air, to see what the wind and sky are doing!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“So was I,’ said Frodo, ‘and so I am. We’re going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and it is all too likely that some will say at this point: “Shut the book now, dad; we don’t want to read any more.”’ ‘Maybe,’ said Sam, ‘but I wouldn’t be one to say that. Things done and over and made into part of the great tales are different. Why, even Gollum might be good in a tale, better than he is to have by you, anyway. And he used to like tales himself once, by his own account. I wonder if he thinks he’s the hero or the villain?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Many of us, I suppose, see our existences not as lives, but as life-holders, zarfs, waiting for the job, the person, the event to fill it.”
― Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang

“I dream in a language I do not understand when I'm awake.”
― Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars