"So, your guards turned into your friends? I guess they must have seen that you were not merely an experimental subject, that you had value as a human being -- zombie or not."

Curufin nods when Murphy rubs his temples. "I agree with you about the nature of the world, for the most part. It is a place full of disasters, pain and misery. And yet there are small joys, and sometimes even great ones."

He smiles a little. "You do need both."