A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1)

by Christelle Dabos

BEWARE: COLD ROOMS TAKE A COAT

So many curiosities!

With hands in pockets and long scarf trailing, Ophelia passed a succession of labeled filing cabinets: “Register of Births,” “Register of Deaths,” “Register of Consanguinity Exemptions,” and so on.

An object repaired itself quicker if it felt useful, it was all a question of psychology.

To read an object requires forgetting oneself a little, to leave room for the past of someone else. Traveling through mirrors, that requires facing up to oneself. One has to have guts, y’know, to look oneself straight in the peepers, see oneself as one really is, plunge into one’s own reflection.

an overpowering personality that allowed room for nothing but herself;