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Tolkien: It had always been a notion of [Sam’s] that the kindness of dear Mr. Frodo was of such a high degree that it must imply a fair measure of blindness.

Nurse Lee: I did not regard it as a moral issue, but as a medical issue. A minority of women will always want an abortion. Therefore it must be done properly.

Nurse Lee: A woman's right to control her own body is taken for granted now, and younger people can scarcely believe that abortion used to be a criminal offence, punishable by a prison sentence for the woman and the abortionist.
Me: Ha, ha, ha!

Sister Julianne: There is something in the eyes of a woman who has lost a child that sets her apart from others. The grief and pain never go away.

Yennefer: What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?

5 of the Mastersons’ 6 children died of tuberculosis.

Maigret: There are people who are able to refuse and others who aren't.

Maigret: You expect all kinds of things, but what real life throws up is always more bizarre.

Yennefer: It’s not easy being a sorceress.

Nurse Lee: Domestic violence was regarded as a fact of life. Even in the 1950s it was accepted that men beat their wives.

‘Madonna of the Pavement’ focuses on a woman completely trampled by her no good husband and worn down by life.

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Corrigan: If you love a work of literature, you want to absorb it, make it part of you.

Corrigan: Gatsby and its author are too ubiquitous to be intellectually sexy.

Corrigan: Librarians, along with independent bookstore owners and dedicated middle and high school teachers, are the most selfless guardians of literature on earth.

Corrigan’s mother: The rich always come out on top even if they’re dead.

Corrigan: All great works of art are weird especially in the archaic sense of that word as meaning uncanny.

Corrigan: We Americans want to believe that material excess is excused by very hard work, that the rich deserve their wealth.

Corrigan: Some places are best to dream of, not to visit.

Corrigan: True writers salvage everything experience no matter how grim, that is, if they are lucky enough to first salvage themselves.

“We’re all strange in someone’s eyes.”

Was it really necessary to drop that story about the boatman whose wife died in childbirth along with the baby into casual conversation?

Three Jackdaws: There’s a destination at the end of every road. Everybody has one. Even you, although you like to think you’re somehow different.
Geralt: Do you have a destination at the end of the road?
Three Jackdaws: I do.
Geralt: Lucky for you.
Three Jackdaws: It’s not a matter of luck. It is a matter of what you believe in and what you serve.

Pippin: What will you do to him?
Gandalf: I? Nothing! I will do nothing to him. I do not wish for mastery.

Trigger Warning: graphic rape scene in the story “Nancy.”

Pippin: But Gandalf, where have you been?
Gandalf: Wherever I have been, I am back.

Aragorn: One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters.