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“No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson