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“And the Dwarf, hearing the names given in his own ancient tongue, looked up and met her eyes; and it seemed to him that he looked suddenly into the heart of an enemy and saw there love and understanding.”

“I blamed you, but you were not at fault. Terrible accidents happen all the time to many, many people. The grief that must fill the world is incomprehensible. Our small dose felt as large as the sun, didn't it? And it persists.”

“There were fortresses on the heights. Kings of little kingdoms fought together, and the young Sun shone like fire on the red metal of their new and greedy swords. There was victory and defeat; and towers fell, fortresses were burned, and flames went up into the sky. Gold was piled on the biers of dead kings and queens; and mounds covered them, and the stone doors were shut; and the grass grew over all.”

“But it is not your own Shire,' said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more, The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”

“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.” - pg. 50

“They were all waving as I walked away, calling out good-byes like I was going to war, because that was the way they did things. Maybe people come back quicker if you make them feel like you can't bear to see them go.”

“There was no watching them every minute, Marion. We can't be everywhere. What are you going to do but teach them to look?”

“This was, Anne observed, Walt's main problem in life—his tireless quest for knowledge only pointing out to him more things he didn't know.”

“Sunny thought the dead would be humiliated to read their obituaries and, again, as with his innermost thoughts on the attacks, he thought he should keep these illicit notions to himself. It was not fair to opine that someone who had a quiet life, a darling dog, a love for shoes, a mother to visit, might not have had a life quite as meaningful as a life brimful.”