Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.
J. R. R. TolkienYou renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.
J. R. R. TolkienAnd sometimes you didn't want to know the endโฆ because how could the end be happy?
J. R. R. TolkienOut of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament โฆ There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.
J. R. R. Tolkien