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“People could behave how they liked, but Allan considered that in general it was quite unnecessary to be grumpy if you had the chance not to.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“God created the bodies of black girls as a marvelous work, and God inhabits the bodies of black girls through the Holy Spirit. God loves black girls so much that the spirit of God chooses to dwell within them, as the Spirit does with us all. I asked a ten-year-old girl what she would think if she heard, “the Spirit of the living God lives in your body,” without tacking on a purity message at the end of it. “That would mean I could do anything,” she replied.”
― Khristi Lauren Adams, Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color