“…stories… open a door on Other Time, and if we pass through, though on...” — J.R.R. Tolkien Quote

“…stories… open a door on Other Time, and if we pass through, though only for a moment, we stand outside our own time, outside Time itself, maybe.” J.R.R. Tolkien, “On Fairy Stories”

“He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed.”

“I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which was my small mind directed), glittering white because of the individual ray from the Light which both held and lit it...And the ray was the Guardian Angel of the mote: not a thing interposed between God and the creature, but God's very attention itself, personalized...This is a finite parallel to the Infinite. As the love of the Father and Son (who are infinite and equal) is a Person, so the love and attention of the Light to the Mote is a person (that is both with us and in Heaven): finite but divine, i.e. angelic.”

“No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.”

“You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.”

“These creatures are not humanoid. They call themselves, the Fury, and the name is well deserved; they are a violent race. .”