"When gods die, they die hard. It’s not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die in fire and pain, and when they come out of you, they leave your guts burned. It hurts more than anything you can talk about. And maybe worst of all is, you’re not sure if there will ever be another god to fill their place. Or if you’d ever want another god to fill their place. You don’t want fire to go out inside you twice."

- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

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"… Tolkien’s own misadventures with his first automobile, purchased in 1932, were the source of some of Mr. Bliss’s escapades. Tolkien was known to accelerate across busy intersections crying out ‘Charge ‘em and they scatter!’ and once knocked down a stone wall during a family vacation."

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Beyond The Hobbit, Janet Brennan Croft

I give you John “Road Rage” Tolkien

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princessaryastark:

Game of Thrones || 02x10 || 03x03 || 03x06 || 03x08

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hxcfairy:

#[menacingly stirs bowl of cream]

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"Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible."

- Anne Carson, Introduction to Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides 

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"Kafka said, A book
must be an axe

for the frozen sea
inside us, which sounds

great, but what good
is an axe against

a frozen sea?
Perhaps this is why

he said, while dying,
Destroy everything."

- Matt Rasmussen, from “Elegy in X Parts” 

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Between the base animal clawing for money and the enlightened man’s reach for God, lies knowledge. You just want to know what’s next.

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"Au commencement donc était l’ennui, vulgairement appelé chaos. Dieu s’ennuyant créa la terre, le ciel, l’eau, les animaux, les plantes, puis Adam et Eve; ces derniers s’ennuyant à leur tour dans le paradis mangèrent le fruit défendu. Ils ennuyèrent Dieu qui les chassa de l’Eden; Caïn qu’ennuyait Abel le tua; Noé s’ennuyant vraiment trop inventa le vin; Dieu ayant de nouveau pris les hommes en ennui détruisit le monde par le déluge; mais ce désastre également l’ennuya à tel point qu’il fit revenir le beau temps. Et ainsi de suite. Les grands empires égyptiens, babyloniens, persans, grecs et romains surgissaient de l’ennui et s’écroulaient dans l’ennui; l’ennui du paganisme suscitait le christianisme; l’ennui du catholicisme engendra le protestantisme; l’ennui de l’Europe faisait découvrir l’Amérique; l’ennui de la féodalité provoquait la révolution française et celui du capitalisme, la révolution russe."

- Alberto Moravia