“Isn’t it strange how reading a book is a sin, but locking a girl in the stocks and leaving her to the dogs is another day of the Good Father’s work?”
“Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not drawn to the happy and carefree; they want salt, be it blood or be it tears.”
― My Darling Dreadful Thing
― My Darling Dreadful Thing
“It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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