Elen Sentier

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case

“A moon like a fallen fruit reversing gravity was hoisting itself above the rooftops.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill

“his manner had the heavy ease of a politician, poised between bullying and flattery.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Chill