Blueshadow

“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real things of its own. I don't think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkein

“Do you know what my mother said?” Turner asked. “She told me there’s no doorway the devil doesn't know. He's always waiting to stick his foot in. I never really believed her until tonight.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House