Ola

“Nie­wie­lu jest po­śród nas ta­kich, któ­rzy otrzą­sa­li się o świ­cie czy to po jed­nej z tych bez­sen­nych nocy, kiedy nie­omal ma­rzy­my o śmier­ci, czy też po nocy peł­nej hor­ro­rów i upior­nych ra­do­ści, kiedy przez kom­na­ty umy­słu prze­cią­ga­ły zjawy strasz­liw­sze niż sama rze­czy­wi­stość.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There are times," I declared, "when I believe the dead haunt us because we love them too little.”
― Louis Bayard, The Pale Blue Eye

“Yet not all the Eldalië were willing to forsake the Hither Lands where they had long suffered and long dwelt; and some lingered many an age in Middle-earth. Among those were Círdan the Shipwright, and Celeborn of Doriath, with Galadriel his wife, who alone remained of those who led the Noldor to exile in Beleriand. In Middle-earth dwelt also Gil-galad the High King, and with him was Elrond Half-elven, who chose, as was granted to him, to be numbered among the Eldar; but Elros his brother chose to abide with Men. And from these brethren alone has come among Men the blood of the Firstborn and a strain of the spirits divine that were before Arda; for they were the sons of Elwing, Dior’s daughter, Lúthien’s son, child of Thingol and Melian; and Eärendil their father was the son of Idril Celebrindal, Turgon’s daughter of Gondolin.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

“These words shall go with the gift,’ she said. ‘I do not foretell, for all foretelling is now vain: on the one hand lies darkness, and on the other only hope. But if hope should not fail, then I say to you, Gimli son of Glóin, that your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring