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1 " Tolkien did admit that, 'As a guide, I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving.' In other words ~ he wrote about what interested him ~ and despite his protestation of including anything allegorical into his tale, Catholic history and mystic prophecy obviously received its fair share of attention ... "
― E.A. Bucchianeri , Lord of the Rings: Apocalyptic Prophecies
2 " Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere. "
― Jasper Fforde , The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next #3)
3 " Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders. "
― A.J. Darkholme , Rise of the Morningstar (The Morningstar Chronicles, #1)
4 " Life as a private investigator, slash bounty hunter wasn’t all Gary Beck wanted it to be. There weren’t any big mansions on a palm beach owned by an affluent writer generous enough to let him live rent-free and use his spare Ferrari. But then you have to ask yourself, what could you expect living on a planet like Deanna? As a third-rate colony in the Terran Empire, Deanna had more than its fair share of dull moments. It orbits a star called Ramalama. If you think that’s funny, Deanna’s two moons are called Ding and Dong, respectively (this is a local joke) and one of them falls down occasionally. "
― Christina Engela , Black Sunrise