Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“He hated it as if he were about to love it—unforgivingly, irrationally, sadly.”

— Mark Helprin

“His eyes held a subtle light that she could not mistake for anything other than true attraction. The kind that mere friends did not…

— Ted Dekker

“He was altogether wretched. He hated the dark, and he hated the light more: he hated everything, and the Ring most of all.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“He loves power. A terrible love.”

— Euripides

“He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life.”

— Ford Madox Ford

“I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“maybe he fought it off and forgot about it, and he wasn’t afraid, because he knew he’d never carry it out. Right, but now,…

— Stanisław Lem

“And she liked it. The power over this man. The ability to choose who survived. To take lives and twist them as she pleased.…

— Michael Walterich

“Was not love a terrible thing? One thought one had learned to manage it, and then it sprang free again, rattling its claws in…

— Meredith Duran

“He was driven by some deeper urge to smash the one thing left in the world that could discipline him: the government.”

— Jane Mayer

“In that moment she hated Sar, hated his simple way of life and the power he'd given her over it. Hated that somewhere, someone…

— Rebecca Hill

“He had always disliked what he could easily have; he had a passion for the untouched.”

— Rumer Godden