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Part of him decides he is being childish and that he is too old to expect real life to be like books. Another part of him decides that if he does not try he cannot be disappointed and he can go on believing that the door could open even if it is just pretend.
The book is mis-shelved in the fiction section, even though the majority of it is true and the rest is true enough.
You want that narrative there to trust in, even if you want to maintain your own free will.”
“You want to decide where to go and what to do and which door to open but you still want to win the game,”
everyone wants to be part of a story.”
“Everyone is a part of a story, what they want is to be part of something worth recording.
highly realistic but with whimsical details.
Do you want to know the secret to surviving once you’ve gone down the rabbit hole?”
“Be a rabbit,” she whispers.
It’s disconcerting and making him dizzy and maybe once you go to wonderland you’re supposed to stay there because nothing will ever be the same in the real world, in the other world, afterward. Afterworld.
Fate and Time can kill as many kings as they please, and will eventually kill them all.
Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.
The Queen of the Bees has been waiting for you Tales hidden within to be told Bring her a key that has never been forged And another made only of gold
a deck of cards that would tell him the whole story if he laid them out in the proper order.
there are three things lost in time
sword book man
There are so many pieces to a person. So many small stories and so few opportunities to read them.
“You did say you trusted me, Ezra,” she says, watching him hesitate. “I did,” Zachary admits
Trustinv fate
It’s never too late to change what you are, it took me a long time to figure that out.”
a tree stump covered in books dripping with honey under a beehive with an owl sitting atop it, wearing a crown.
like being haunted by your own ghost.”
don’t stand there and invent mythology that allows you to blame me for your problems. I have my own.”
You don’t like choosing, do you? You don’t do anything until someone or something else says that you can.
“Important things hurt sometimes.”
He is tired of walking. Tired of trying. He doesn’t even know what he wants, what it is that he’s looking for.
he has lost track of Fate and he cannot see but he still believes, dammit.
“The Owl King is a…phenomenon. The future crashing into the present like a wave. Its wings beat in the spaces between choices and before decisions, heralding change…change of the long-awaited sort, the change foretold by prophecies and warned of by omens, written in the stars.”
“We are all stardust and stories.”
The son of the fortune-teller stands before six doorways,
Three things lost in time. All right here. Sweet Sorrows in his bag, the sword at his feet, and Simon across the room.
most of us are two steps away from jumping off something most of the time and you never know if the next day is going to push you in one direction or another.
The wind howls after him as he leaves in fear of what is to come, but a mortal cannot understand the wishes of the wind no matter how loud it cries and so these final warnings go unheeded.
(All cats are guardians in their own right.)
