Paula

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement