There is a profound difference between genuinely loving someone and loving certain specific qualities about them. Confusing the one kind of love for the other has probably caused more failed relationships than can be counted.
— Jonathan Carroll (via browndresswithwhitedots)
(Source: godsteenagedaughter)
I’m afraid I have made a great mistake in making my sequel too long and complicated and too slow in coming out. It is a curse having the epic temperament in an overcrowded age devoted to snappy bits!
— J.R.R. Tolkien, in a letter to his son Christopher (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, #77)
(Source: oaken-shield)
For in the end it is Middle-earth and its dwellers that we love, not Tolkien’s considerable gifts in showing it to us. I said once that the world he charts was there long before him, and I still believe it. He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either; he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day’s madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
— Peter S Beagle (via halewolves)
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
(Source: ancient-serpent)
