Murderbot -Martha Wells
> I can’t handle that right now so I’m just going to archive it for later.
#OlisQuoteFile
Murderbot - Martha Wells
> I will never figure out how humans decide who gets to sit where and do what, it’s never the same.
Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See - Jonathan Rosenbaum
> Ebert reviews a good many film books, and to my knowledge Siskel never did; if he ever read any books about film on his own, it would have surprised me.
The Last King of Osten Ard - #TadWilliams
> Likimeya and I did not talk very often, but when we did our conversations often began like this, with her explaining things to me as though I were witless. To be fair, she spoke this way to most of her elders.
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn - #TadWilliams
> Simon said nothing, saving his strength so he could more fully appreciate his misery.
J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century - Tom Shippey
> As part of the ongoing and French-oriented snobbery of English society in Tolkien’s day (and later), municipal councils were (and still are) in the habit of indicating a street with no outlet as a ‘cul-de-sac’. This is French, of course, for ‘bag end’, though the French actually call such a thing an impasse, while the native English is ‘dead end’.
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
> Tom put his mouth to the crack and began singing into it in a low voice. They could not catch the words, but evidently Merry was aroused.
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
> At that time Frodo was still in his *tweens*, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.
@TheHobbit: Or There and Back Again - #JRRTolkien
> His rage passes description—the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.
Fitz and the Fool [Omnibus] - #RobinHobb
> Vengeance took no account of innocence or right. It was the chain that bound horrific events together, that decreed that one awful act must beget another worse one that would lead to yet a third. It came to me, slowly, that this chain would never end.
Fitz and the Fool [Omnibus] - #RobinHobb
> Worrying doesn’t solve anything. I know that. In one way I know it but in another it seems wrong. It seems as if I don’t think about all the things that hurt, all the things I’ve done wrong, then I don’t really care.
Fitz and the Fool [Omnibus] - #RobinHobb
> ‘I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.’
And on:
> And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.
Later:
> I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears.
Fitz and the Fool [Omnibus] - #RobinHobb
> Still he ran to us, as if he could run back to a time when it wasn’t already too late.
The Tawny Man [Omnibus] - #RobinHobb
.> The stabbing pain of recalling her abused trust of me was the brightest gem in a glittering necklace of painful memories.
> Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.
Assassin's Quest - #RobinHobb
> “And is that how a man loves a woman?” he interrupted me suddenly. “For bedding?”
>
> “It’s a part of it!” I felt suddenly defensive but could not say why.
>
> He arched an eyebrow at me and said calmly, “You are confusing plumbing and love again.”
Assassin's Quest - #RobinHobb
> She sat there most of the night, knitting loudly and peering at him disapprovingly.
Royal Assassin - #RobinHobb
> Odd, to think of so many events turning upon a boy’s misplaced pride and his schooled acceptance of defeats.
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