"I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again."

carrying the world around his neck

"I see no hope of it now. But I've got to do the best I can."

….frodo quietly fingering all his many scars and wondering where they’ve come from, and not understanding why feeling a little bit more whole is a strange thing instead of something perfectly normal and why he has more good dreams than nightmares that wake him shaking and trembling in the dark.