Books Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Well, I’ve made up my mind, anyway. I want to see mountains again, Gandalf – mountains; and then find somewhere where I can rest.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Things are drawing to the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the…

— Franz Kafka

“Those mountains had been there since before I was born, and they'd still be there when I was gone. They'd stayed standing through every…

— Joseph Knox

“I’d like the last chapter of my life to be like a good read that you enjoyed to the end and were sorry to…

— Michael Lipsey

“You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a…

— Jennifer Echols

“Everything good or bad in my life had started and ended within the limits of that town. It was over now, though, and a…

— Rose Wynters

“One day pages of my life will end. But, if I get to read it once again, I will open it where I met…

— Jan 3

“And even though the mountain did nothing the mountain was not impervious to the storm and in fact dreaded its retreat and longed for…

— Claire-Louise Bennett

“The huge sadness of the northern plains rolled down on him and There was some open space between what he knew and what he…

— Annie Proulx

“He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew…

— Willa Cather

“The poet dreams of the mountain Sometimes I grow weary of the days, with all their fits and starts. I want to climb some…

— Mary Oliver