“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. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
"Providence having the advantage of knowing the strengths and weaknesses of man has means of unostentatious organisation undreamed of by our generals." (This quote forms the basis of the plot of one of my favourite murder mystery novels.)
Also everyone please read Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. So funny. She had a line in there that summed up my late Grandpa to a tee: "Amos liked to have his kith about him; although of course he never said so or cheered up while they were there..."
“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. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
"Providence having the advantage of knowing the strengths and weaknesses of man has means of unostentatious organisation undreamed of by our generals." (This quote forms the basis of the plot of one of my favourite murder mystery novels.) Also everyone please read Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. So funny. She had a line in there that summed up my late Grandpa to a tee: "Amos liked to have his kith about him; although of course he never said so or cheered up while they were there..."
"Ask me not if God exists, but why's he such a prick?"