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“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Aren’t you going to tell me your name? I muster up the courage to
tease him.
You never asked, he replies simply with a shrug of his shoulders.
I give him a sarcastic smile. “Well, now, I am.”
Tucking his hands in his hoodie pocket, he looks straight ahead. My
name is Leo Drakos. Leo is short for Leonidas.”
― Alexia Mantzouranis, Identity

“What?” I ask, confused by her expression.
“We’re triplets,” Leo notes to me.
Damn, that must have hurt Athena.”
― Alexia Mantzouranis, Identity

“Art was many things, but in the end it was a question asked: What do you want to be remembered for?”
― Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

“What's wrong with wanting everything?
Nothing, as long as you know how to get it.”
― Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

“Careful,” Irene said. “Museums never like to grapple with their history of colonialism. If you remove everything that was looted, then what’s left?”
― Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It’s not a hockey game, James. I’m not keeping score.” He kissed my lips softly. “But if I was, I’d definitely want you to win.”
― Avery Keelan, Offside

“You know I’m going to ask you to marry me one day, right?” “You are?” “Count on it. Are you going to say yes?” “Of course.”
― Avery Keelan, Offside

“You’re one of my favorite people.” Her lips curved into a small smile, her gaze softening. “Who are your other favorite people?” “It’s mostly you, I guess. Not a big fan of humankind in general.”
― Avery Keelan, Offside

“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Don't go where I can't follow!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles."
"What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“For it is easier to shout 'Stop!', than to do it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“I have more need of thought than of sleep.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Every man has something too dear to trust to another.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing...
And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes.
And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished.

Behind me, I heard the same man asking:
"For God's sake, where is God?"
And from within me, I heard a voice answer:
"Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows..."

That night, the soup tasted of corpses.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“He can’t change his past but he means to change his future. He also intends to have his payday. He earned it.”
― Stephen King, Billy Summers

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet