Sofia Pons

“And we shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. But I suppose it's often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful fold of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in the,, usually their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they has, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on – and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighted, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“But when a sick person begins to feel that he’s going to die, half my work is useless.”
― O. Henry, The Last Leaf

“All the is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien