Shire Quotes

• Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Friend

• It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

  

  Warsan Shire
  • Beautiful
  • Responsibility
  • Existence

• We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Success
  • Save
  • Shire

• Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

  

  Warsan Shire
  • World
  • Night
  • Hurt