Rupert Chapman

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
― Agatha Christie

“Where it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.”
― Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland

“Always after a defeat and a respite," says Gandalf, "the shadow takes another shape and grows again."
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," says Frodo.
"So do I," says Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver