LL Dorn

I want people to stop being embarrassed for pursuing majors in literature or the arts. You're pursuing your passion, you're acquiring empathy and wisdom, you're resisting the ruthless utilitarian logic that says money and profit are all that matter.

bring back parasols and hat pins so a lady can defend herself from murderers while looking *fabulous*

I wasn’t made to work a nine to five, I was made to have nine companions who accompany me to Mount Doom, into the very fires of Mordor

for centuries we took for granted that a woman's place was in a lake offering swords to future kings, but now a lady can claim the sword for her own and that's feminism.

a few of my favorite words for book-lovers: bibliobuli (to be drunk on reading); librocubicularist (a person who reads whilst lying in bed); book-bosomed (a person who always has a book in hand); tsundoku (the hoarding of books that are never read).

find someone who looks at you the way Frodo and Sam look at each other

I hope when you look back at your life you’re proud of who you became. I hope your gentleness wasn’t bullied out of you. I hope you were loved and learned how to love. I hope you were stunned by beauty.