💬 Quotes

"I felt my life was being stolen from me, or that I was being lured into a trap of my own making."

"If we were to be punished for all the things we did, the world would be a very small place, and we would be its only inhabitants."

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone."

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

"You are a fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!"

"Go back? No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!"

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

"What if I were to sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense?"

"He was a tool of the employer, without brains or backbone."

"I will get out of bed now, before a quarter to seven comes around."

"It has to go. You must try to get rid of the idea that it is Gregor. The fact that we believed it for so long is the root of all our trouble."

"And it was as if a new life were beginning for them at the very moment when they had finished their long journey and taken their train into the open country."

"Time is a wheel. Life is a spiral. We are all just repeating ourselves, over and over, until we finally learn how to break the circle."

"Beep beep, Richie."

"Perhaps we are all a little crazy. Some of us just hide it better than others."

"And you always come back to Derry. It's a place where the past isn't just past; it's a living, breathing thing that waits for you in the sewers."

"Kids are better than adults at believing in things that don't exist, but they are also better at acknowledging the things that do exist—the monsters in the closet, the shapes in the dark."

"I’ll tell you something, and you can believe it or not: you’re not the ones who are crazy. The world is."