Five Quotes, vol. iii

It's time for this week's round-up of quotes that I'll be recording in my Commonplace Notebook.  I'm still spending my mornings reading The Fellowship of the Ring, so that features heavily again this week.  Tolkien can flat-out write, though.  He deserves his place.

"You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem.  Yet it is not so.  Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world." 
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring


"The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present.  Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song." 
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring


"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
 - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring


"...then, as she held out her hand, their eyes met and all doubt was swept away in a glad certainty.  They belonged to each other; and, no matter what life might hold for them, it could never alter that.  Their happiness was in each other's keeping and both were unafraid." 
 - L.M.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams


"Everything stops for tea."  
- Noreen Riols (a true statement I felt like recording)

May our homes during these days be places where our health and hope can grow, where we'll be made strong to work in the dark places of the world and where we'll find joy in all that is fair.