172 Quotes About Elves

I see.” “No, you don’t.” A low blow, but as usual, it didn’t even begin to get under Siveril’s skin.Siveril laughed, but it was clearly forced. He wanted Illimon to know he wasn’t really amused. “Ah, yes, I can’t see because I’m blind! I haven’t ever heard that one before.

This is beautiful." Eugenie ran her fingers along a massive mahogany sideboard, on the top of which rested a red velvet sash with fine embroidery on it and, on top of the sash, a silver dagger. That little vignette was Jean Lafitte in a nutshell. Refined gentleman and renegade. Velvet and violence.

A conscience can be a dangerous thing

Either you’re with me or you’re against me. I can’t afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.

If you do not have the courage to be yourself, what will you be?

Water runs if you try to grasp it, but pours onto an open hand.

Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right?

Those of the Elven-race that lived still in Middle-earth waned and faded, and Men usurped the sunlight. Then the Quendi wandered in the lonely places of the great lands and the isles, and took to the moonlight and the starlight, and to the woods and caves, becoming as shadows and memories, save those who ever and anon set sail into the West and vanished from Middle-earth.

They were changeful in speech, for they had great love of words, and sought ever to find names more fit for all things that they knew or imagined.