"We're so quick to dismiss the sentiment as weak, but hearts beat for love, don't they?" "A life without purpose may be no life, but a life without love is nothing but an existence."

You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.

"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world."

“A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?”

“If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before.