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Evocative book quotes, 1

While I have enjoyed rotating through my original 4 Wednesday prompts (book series to TV show, books on my to-read list, book to movie, and judging books by their covers), now that I hit 25 of each of those prompts, I've decided it's time to change things up! The second of my new prompts is going to be 4 book quotes that I find evocative in one way or another. The Two Towers  by J. R. R. Tolkien (George Allen & Unwin, 1954): “It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I t...

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