At the hill’s foot Frodo found Aragorn, standing still and silent as a tree; but in his hand was a small golden bloom of elanor, and a light was in his eyes. He was wrapped in some fair memory, and...

Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -- Catherine Fisher Not everyone wants to spend an evening...

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. -- Theodore Roethke One of the best parts of finishing a great story can be seeing how the author got us from...

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. -- Morris West Spending time around people who complain all the time is exhausting. Reading about people who are...

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide. -- Rahul Gandhi While characters...

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. -- A. A. Milne Sometimes our irrational dislikes make us more interesting to others than our passions or preferences. Which would you want to hear...

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. -- Montesquieu One of the most common pitfalls in writing characters is a lack of nuance. Characters that are perfectly angelic...

Gardens are not made by singing, "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade -- Rudyard Kipling And neither are books, poems, paintings, sculptures, films, or any other creative endeavor. To bring...

Charm is a product of the unexpected. -- José Martí Often it's an oddity that catches our eye or forces us to rethink all that we thought we knew about someone, someplace, or something. If, for...

The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own. -- Doug Baldwin Every new experience gives us a new way of...