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Tolkien’s central field of study was, naturally, Old and Middle English, roughly speaking the forms of English which date from 700 AD to 1100 (Old) and 1100 to 1500 (Middle) – Old English is often called ‘Anglo-Saxon’, as in the title of
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“Maybe we get the endings we deserve. Or maybe the endings we practice.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“Another way to say it is that everybody is dying and going to die of something. And if you’re not spending your life on the stuff you believe, then what are you even doing? What is the point of the whole thing?”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“A patchwork story is the shame of a refugee.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“A god who listens is love. A god who speaks is law. At their worst, the people who want a god who listens are self-centered...And the ones who want a god who speaks are cruel. They just want laws and justice to crush everything...Love is empty without justice. Justice is cruel without love....God should be both. If a god isn't, that is no God.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“We are always choosing situations that hurt us. We choose them so deeply that we don’t know we chose them. We think we had to. We think the world did it to us. And then we think, what a horrible world that makes a weapon out of love. That stabs you with it, even when you can’t defend yourself and the other person hates you and wants to see you cry.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
Jennifer’s 2025 Year in Books
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