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“How can my mind have any rest? My beloved friend has turned into clay - my beloved Enkidu has turned into clay. And won't I too lie down in the dirt like him, and never rise again?”

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“Shane seemed very excited about the burgers. He had followed a recipe online. Ilya took a sip of his beer. "Why the fuck are you making eight burgers?" he asked. "That's how many the recipe was for!" "You can't do math? Cut it in half?" "Leave me alone." Instead, Ilya stood directly behind Shane and draped an arm across his chest. He kissed him behind the ear. "No", he murmured.”

Romance Cute Moment

Book:Heated Rivalry

Source: Heated Rivalry

“The Old English word is wyrd, which most glossaries and dictionaries translate as ‘fate’. Tolkien knew that the etymologies of the two words were quite different, ‘fate’ coming from the Latin fari, ‘to speak’, so ‘that which has been spoken’, sc. by the gods. The Old English word derives from weorÞan, ‘to become’: it means ‘what has become, what’s over’, so among other things, ‘history’ – a historian is a wyrdwritere, a writer-down of wyrd.”

Language Mythology Old English Old Norse Wyrd

Book:J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century

Source: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century

“We come now to the vexed question as to whether the Nibelungenlied is mythical or historical in origin. This question has been approached by certain scholars who, because of their lack of mythological knowledge, have rendered themselves ridiculous in attempting elucidations on a purely historical basis.”

Mythology Nibelungenlied

Book:Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine

Source: Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine

“The past is embedded in who we are, whether we choose to change or keep our course. Without our history, we are unmarked sheets of paper.”

Inspirational Fantasy Mythology

Book:Tales of the Celestial Kingdom

Source: Tales of the Celestial Kingdom

“My only response was more incoherent screaming, because I didn't know the ASL for HOLY FREAKING AGGGHHH!”

Humor Mythology Asl

Book:The Hammer of Thor

Source: The Hammer of Thor

“It was work, day after day of it. Witchcraft is the same. I have laboured for centuries and still I have not mastered it.”

Mythology Greek Mythology Circe

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“If this represents a basic need for order in the human mind and since, after all, the human mind is only part of the universe, the need probably exists because there is some order in the universe and the universe is not a chaos.”

Philosophy Science Mythology

Book:Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture

Source: Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture

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