The Dollmakers

by Lynn Buchanan

Seclusion and silence; those were Nock’s ways of demonstrating how disappointed he was in her.

Don’t apologize for being different.”

“Those who live are those who keep their eyes on the cliff edge before them.”

even a chance the width of a spider’s thread was worth pursing,

There comes a time when all other voices must be blocked from your mind, a time when you must turn inward and ask yourself who you are, what you want, and how you can best achieve those goals. No one can do that for you.

“Tradition is wisdom clouded by habit,”

sometimes I get carried away in my feelings, and forget that mine aren’t the only emotions to take into consideration.”