One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.
stranger things rewatch ~ chapter one: the vanishing of will byers;
Did you ever think Will went missing because he ran into something bad? And we’re going to the exact same spot where he was last seen? And we have no weapons or anything? […] I’m just saying, does that seem smart to you?
sirius was lounging in his chair at his ease, tilting it back on two legs. he was very good-looking, his dark hair fell into his eyes with a sort of casual elegance neither james’s nor harry’s could ever have achieved, and a girl sitting behind him was eyeing him hopefully, though he didn’t seem to have noticed.
has it ever occurred to you that i have agreed to look after the overlook hotel until may the first? does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and trust in me, and that i have signed a letter of agreement, a contract, in which i have accepted that responsibility? has it ever occurred to you what would happen to my future, if i were to fail to live up to my responsibilities? has it ever occurred to you? has it?
And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island… were subjugated and starving…Then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British fleet, would carry on the struggle until, in God’s good time… The New World, with all its power and might steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.