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

by Christelle Dabos

“Charm is the strongest weapon given to women, you must use it without scruples.

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. Those who close their eyes, those who lie to themselves, those who see themselves as better than they are, they could never do it. So, believe me, it’s no run-of-the-mill thing.”

“Nonsense,” she repeated, more calmly. “One can love at first sight. Indeed, one never loves someone more than when one knows the least about them.”

Reading had always been a passion, but since when were passions the only foundations of a life?

From having seen so many illusions, it had lost its own, and that was just fine. When illusions disappear, only the truth remains. Those eyes would look less within, and more out to the world. They still had much to see, much to learn.