Valerie

“By remembering it too often I have blurred the memory itself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“All tales may come true; and yet, at the last, redeemed, they may be as like and as unlike the forms that we give them as Man, finally redeemed, will be like and unlike the fallen that we know”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

“A divine 'punishment’ is also a divine 'gift’, if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessing, and the supreme inventiveness of the Creator will make 'punishments’ (that is changes of design) produce a good not otherwise to be attained”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“The right book, like the right song or the right love, can change the entire cosmos, for the right person, of course. And then it spills out from there.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve