Joan

“That is grief’s dizzying spell. The fall isn’t never-ending. It does have a ground floor.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Lanre was always where the fight was thickest, where he was needed most. His sword never left his hand or rested in its sheath.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“With Mortality, especially as it affects art and the creative (or as I should say, sub-creative) desire which seems to have no biological function, and to be apart from the satisfactions of plain ordinary biological life, with which, in our world, it is indeed usually at strife.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

“And he feigned, even to himself at first, that he desired to go thither and order all things for the good of the Children of Ilúvatar, controlling the turmoils of the heat and the cold that had come to pass through him. But he desired rather to subdue to his will both Elves and Men, envying the gifts with which Ilúvatar promised to endow them; and he wished himself to have subjects and servants, and to be called Lord, and to be a master over other wills.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion