Clarissa

“Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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“He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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'Je descends lentement
Mon corps enfin se repose
Mes cheveux longs dans le courant
Ondulant caressant
Dans le silence
Libre et sans lien
Doucement, me balance
Un berceau bleu étincelant
Au fond de l’océan…

Si tu as rêvé, dans les eaux sombres
Dans la pénombre où nage ophélia
Si la lueur des profondeurs t’attire aussi
Ne me retiens pas
Même si les bras froids
Du tendre océan
Te saisissant
Glace ton cœur
Tu me rejoindras
Ne me sauve pas
Coule avec moi
Ne me retiens pas

Je n’entends ni ne respire
Les vagues se retirent
Sur l’oreiller blanc des abysses
Je peux me laisser partir…

D'un coquillage blanc
On renaîtra
Emerveillé
Dans la lumière
On ouvrira nos paupières closes
Devant la beauté d'une autre mer

Je retourne à la mer
Je retourne à la mer...''
_Ophélia - Nolwenn Leroy