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“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“The dead are sensitive to the living. They have walked this path ahead of us and know our fears, our failings, our desperate hopes, and how much we cherish what cannot last. They pity us, I think, and no doubt they should.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Cathy Osborn sighed and shuddered, torn between despair and terror - two emotions that were difficult to contain simultaneusly, since the latter presupposes hope while the former denies it.”
― Dean Koontz, Twilight Eyes / Midnight / House of Thunder