C.R. Wiley > Quotes

“Our troubles, our daily struggles with evil, amount to a better story than one in which our troubles vanish with a casual wave of the Divine Hand.”
― C.R. Wiley, In the House of Tom Bombadil

“If you see the world the way Saruman does, you’ll come to resemble a machine yourself. That’s the way things work. Whatever we think is the final truth of things, that’s the image we conform to.”
― C.R. Wiley, In the House of Tom Bombadil

“The primary emotion in any bureaucracy, and the real thumbscrew of managerial control, is fear.”
― C.R. Wiley, In the House of Tom Bombadil

“The idea apparently being that in Hell there a food chain in which the higher consumes the lower. This is a reversal of the heavenly food chain we see in Christianity in which the highest of all gives himself as food for all, which results in a trickle-down of goodness and an expanding circumference of life.”
― C.R. Wiley, In the House of Tom Bombadil

“They’ve fought a long defeat. But somehow Tom manages to live in the present. Could it be that it is because Tom knows how things end? Is that what gives his life between the Perilous Land and the Shadow of Death its lightness and joy?”
― C.R. Wiley, In the House of Tom Bombadil