Michelle

“P. 37/784 - Return of the King
Lady Éowyn to Aragorn: “All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.”
― J. R. R. Tolkein

“She understood the need to retreat behind a book, to create a physical barrier between you and the world. She’d been doing it for years, seeking refuge in other people’s stories.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“The road is black ahead,’ I told her. ‘And it’s hard to keep walking when you can’t see the ground beneath your feet. But that’s what courage is. The will to keep walking in the darkness.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“We read not to escape life but to learn how to live it more deeply and richly, to experience the world through the eyes of the other.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books