Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
‘What is life’s greatest illusion?’
‘Innocence, my brother.’
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Skyrim - responding correctly to the Black Door
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There is a face beneath this mask but it’s not me. I’m no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it or the bones beneath them.
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V from ‘V for vendetta’
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The better things in life aren’t what you search for, but what you find, randomly and unexpectedly.
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep… that have taken hold…
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Frodo, Lord of the Rings
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The Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things.
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Frodo, to Sam, Lord of the Rings
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End? This is not the end. Death is just another path, one that we all must take.
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Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
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