God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get there at all. It'll happen when you're not looking for it. And don't talk too much about it even among yourselves. And don't mention it to anyone else unless you find that they've had adventures of the same sort themselves. What's that? How will you know? Oh, you'll know all right. Odd things, they say-even their looks-will let the secret out. Keep your eyes open. Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools." -The Profesor

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.