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Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

“It's a dangerous business, going out your door.”

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J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer, best known for his fantasy literature, most notably The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit. His works have had a profound impact on modern fantasy literature. more

“It was inevitable: Yankel fell in love with his never-wife. He would wake from sleep to miss the weight that never depressed the bed next to him, remember in earnest the weight of gestures she never made, long for the un-weight of her un-arm slung over his too-real chest, making his widower's rememberences that much more convincing and his pain that much more real.”

Long Made Real Pain Remember Next Sleep Wife Missing Arms Bed Weight Inevitable Chests Gestures Earnest Convincing Too Real Widowers

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love.”

Feels Shows Hands Remember Moving Felt Very Moving

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was a desire as old as the world, as old as the desire for children.”

World Wells Children Political Desire Poverty Regimes Well Dressed

Book:Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Source: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

“Even without the mushroom cloud still I would have hated Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death I will not be held like a drunkard under the cold tap of facts I refuse the universal alibi”

Ifs Stills Done Facts Cold Universal Clouds Refuse Hated Mushrooms Drunkards

Book:Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

“...all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they'd never be able to do it but it's a great idea and would wake people up in this country.”

People Thinking Knows Way Should Kind Ideas Country Able Members Congress Uniforms Patches Great Idea Nascar

Author:Brad Thor

“She asked him the question she had been asking herself for the past few days. "Why are you being so nice to me now?" J.D. leaned forward in his chair. He gazed directly into her eyes, and Payton suddenly found herself wondering why it had taken him eight years to look at her that way. "Because you're letting me," he said softly.”

Way Years Looks Said Eye Past Found Wonder Taken Nice Asking Eight Chairs Her Eyes

Author:Julie James

“He liked the way her hand felt in his, liked the simple intimacy of the gesture and the way it said - without the need for words - that they were together.”

Way Needs Said Hands Together Felt Simple Intimacy Gestures

Book:Practice Makes Perfect

Source: Practice Makes Perfect

“History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations”

Men Years Generations Pulse

Book:Darkness at noon

Source: Darkness at noon

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