"It's like in the great stories, Mister 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 can the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has 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 somethin', even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mister Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turnin' back, only they didn't. They kept goin', because they were holdin' onto somethin'."
"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, Mister Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
"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 somethin', even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mister Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turnin' back, only they didn't. They kept goin', because they were holdin' onto somethin'."
"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, Mister Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
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aren't they the tiny striped snakeys that barely can get their mouth open far enough to bite your finger?
i think i had one of those for a pet if we're talking about the same thing.