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Finished Shawshank Redemption and loved it. Possibly the best film adaptation I’ve ever seen. Can’t wait for Stand By Me and excited for Apt Pupil next, even though I haven’t seen the movie.

“When pain was the only prize one had, one clung on to it stubbornly.”

“Responsibility had robbed him of frivolity. Heroism demanded sacrifice. Heroism demanded he remained apart. Friendship required the opposite.”

“Yeah, it’s amazing we’re here at all. Given our natures.”

“We never, none of us, had any choices.”

“I think he’s missed a lot of trouble down here on earth, because he’s always studying the sky.”

“I flash back to the Justice Building, and the weeping girl and the sickly scent of decomposing flowers that pervaded the place. Pa is talking to Sarshee, and he’s telling her, ‘Don’t let them use you, Sarshee. Don’t—‘“

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

“Victory now vanished from hope. They had only stemmed the first slot of the black tide.”

“My armoir is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!”

“This was one of his most miserable moments.”

“A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo’s heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled.”

“Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones.”

“Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.”

“He drew a deep breath. ‘Well, I’m back,‘ he said.”

“And the stars flamed in the sunlight, for they were wrought of gems by Arwen daughter of Elrond; and the crown was bright in the morning, for it was wrought of mithril and gold.”

“No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate, small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above it’s fallen mate.”

“He’ll eat us all, if He gets it, eat all the world.”

“And some die that deserve life. Can you give that to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice…”