John Wright

“It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam,’ said Frodo, ‘and I could not have borne that.’ ‘Not as certain as being left behind,’ said Sam. ‘But I am going to Mordor.’ ‘I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I’m coming with you.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Hell of a world we live in, huh? (…) But it could be worse, huh?”
“That’s right,” I said, “or even worse, it could be perfect.”
― William Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum

“When I was talking to her in my office, about Church, I got thinking about my mother and how she spun me that old cabbage-leaf story when I asked her where women got babies. I’ve never forgotten that lie. I don’t think children ever forget the lies their parents tell them.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

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