Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.


J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), British novelist, scholar. The dwarf Gimli, in The Fellowship of the Ring, pt. 1, ch. 3, The Lord of the Rings, bk. 2 of trilogy (1954).

I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.


J.D. Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye, 1945. p.4.