I am Haley. I live in a big small world.

You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

She asked, ‘Are you afraid?’ ‘Afraid of what?’ She said, ‘Life is scarier than death.’

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?

Even though I’m not anymore, I used to be an atheist, which means I didn’t believe in things that couldn’t be observed. I believed that once you’re dead, you’re dead forever, and you don’t feel anything, and you don’t even dream. It’s not that I believe in things that can”t be observed now, because I don’t. It’s that I believe that things are extremely complicated.

There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.