Éowyn

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Dear sister—all other love is merely a reflection of the heavens in the puddles of a muddy road. You will become sullied too if you allow yourself to sink into it. But if you always remember that it’s a reflection of the light from that other home, then you will rejoice at its beauty and take good care that you do not destroy it by churning up the mire at the bottom.”
― Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter

“Perhaps she had seen worse things that night - but this time she felt the pain of it through and through in a way she could not before, for now the face of war and suffering was a face she knew.”
― Elisabeth Grace Foley, War Memorial

“Yet where there is darkness, as this book shows, light shines forth ever brighter to meet it.”
― Tikhon Shevkunov, Everyday Saints and Other Stories