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“Only when things got so far beyond what I could even pretend to manage did I remember I was not in charge of my life, or the lives of others.”

“How could he know that the rusty flake had once been a sword - all that was left on this earth of The Curly Hog, soldier of the First Century of the Numidia Legion?”

[spoiler] “PPS. Make sure that it is the real Strider. There are many strange men on the road. His true name is Aragorn.”

“Frodo wondered how many private talks he would have before he got to bed, and what they would reveal. Were these people all in league against him? He began to suspect even old Butterbur’s fat face of concealing dark designs…”

“It would be something to be loved by such a girl, to excite the first ardours of her young, and sophisticated mind! She interested him more than he had foreseen.”

“If we do not make time for grief, it will not simply disappear.… If we don’t face it directly it comes out sideways, in ways that aren’t always recognizable as grief… Anger, anxiety, shallowness, bitterness, addiction. Grief is a ghost that can’t be put to rest until its purpose has been fulfilled.“

“I know a couple of women who avoided episiotomy simply by commanding a doctor to put those scissors down. You have a voice. Use it.”

“Many of us have grown up with the idea that being like other primates in anyway is somehow shameful or disgraceful. Given that all other primates are known to cope well with labor and birth, while civilized humans aren’t, it seems that we would be wise to emulate other female primates as much as possible.”

“Out into the barren lands far beyond the mountains! Come never here again! Leave your barrow empty! Lost and forgotten be, darker than the darkness, where gates stand for ever shut, till the world is mended.”

“[God] does not promise to keep bad things from happening. He does not promise that night will not come, or that it will not be terrifying, or that we will immediately be tugged to shore. He promises that we will not be left alone. He will keep watch with us in the night.”

Her voice, echoing through the house, and down the garden, careless and familiar like the writing in the book.