The Soldier had a quote: Steel demands to be used. Which, according to him, meant that any weapon aches for violence and sooner or later that ache will pervade the one who owns it, until at last the weapon owns them.
“Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”
― On the Jellicoe Road
― On the Jellicoe Road
“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
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“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“Where there's life there's hope.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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