The Invisible Hour

by Alice Hoffman

“Real life is unbelievable. Souls are snatched away from us, flesh and blood turn to dust, people you love betray you, men go to war over nothing. It’s all preposterous.

“I still think this may be a dream,” Mia said, leaning her face against his. “If it is, then a single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

there was a door that would lead her out of her situation, and that every book was a door, and that there were a thousand lives she might live.

Sometimes walking away is the bravest thing you can do. When you get there, you’ll know where you are.