Pamela

“The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and be able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien On Fairy-stories

“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

“There should be no crying in copyediting.”
― Carol Fisher Saller, The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago