Rebecca

“If most of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.”
― J. R. R. Tolkein

“It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't you think, that a person can swing from despair to gleeful hunger, and that even during these dark days there is happiness to be found in the smallest things?”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper