Favourite books, 3/something → His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I’d spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn’t matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit… And I thought: am I really going to spend the rest of my life without feeling that again? I thought: I want to go to China. 

Favourite books, 3/something → The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien

Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.

Favourite books, 2/something → The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.

Favourite books, 1/something → the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.

We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.