Schierke

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.”
― Plutarch

“Now of old the name of that forest was Greenwood the Great, and its wide halls and aisles were the haunt of many beasts and of birds of bright song; and there was the realm of King Thranduil under the oak and the beech.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

“We live in a generation that applauds the bad more than it commends the good.”
― Pierre Alex Jeanty, Unspoken Feelings of a Gentleman