"I wished to be loved by another...." - Quote by J R R Tolkien

“My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, may remain a habit.”

“I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears.”

“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.”

“I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.”

“For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.”

“Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.”

“Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away”

“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”

“That is my home of love: if I have ranged,Like him that travels I return again,Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.”