You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
A Pen Is To Me…
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus is engaging, mysterious, and really fun. It’s a romantic fantasy with historical elements and lots of magic.
Words Are Events
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Mariana By Susanna Kearsley
The past is very seductive…really it’s the present that’s in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That’s why people often get stuck there.
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
I happen to believe every story is a love story if you catch it at the right moment, slantwise in the light of dusk.
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Stories wanted to be read, David’s mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.
An Adventure Worth Telling
It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
How many feelings can one heart hold?… Infinite, Luna thought. The way the universe is infinite. It is light and dark and endless motion; it is space and time, and space within space, and time within time. And she knew: there is no limit to what the heart can carry.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Nineteen years before she decided to die, Nora Seed sat in the warmth of the small library at Hazeldene School in the town of Bedford.