Derek

“I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?’ ‘Such questions cannot be answered,’ said Gandalf. ‘You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“When I rise up
let me rise up joyful
like a bird.

When I fall
let me fall without regret
like a leaf.”
― Wendell Berry, The Mad Farmer Poems

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi