Lukas

“A different voice slid through the speakers now--his voice. The one that raised armies, toppled kingdoms. The one that sent the entire stadium into a hush. Even the raindrops hung back in the sky; the air cleared into a spitting drizzle.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“And when heart and head go together, nothing can stand before them”
― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

“He says that we have learned nearly all that we know from them, and have been made a nobler people; and he says that the Men that have lately come over the Mountains are hardly better than Orcs.'

That is true', answered Sador; 'true at least of some of us. But the up-climbing is painful, and from high places it is easy to fall low.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.”
― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind