Juli Blair

“Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“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

“..for we all are dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending..”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace