

“I have pain in my hip and long walks are a thing of the past but I'm neither morbid nor senile. I'm not obsessed by death, but I'm at an age when I have to accept that my time is about up. You want to close the accounts and take care of unfinished business.”
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“It didn't hurt, did it? When I hit you?" "Sure. Fractured skull. Concussion, the lot..." "But seriously, Kath. No hard feelings, right? I'm awfully sorry. I honestly am.”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go

“You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less”
― Monsters of Men
― Monsters of Men

“A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.”
― Number9Dream
― Number9Dream

“He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.”
― The Tolkien Reader
― The Tolkien Reader
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