I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. ~ Dr. Seuss
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
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
Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and…
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