Once Upon a Wardrobe

by Patti Callahan Henry

‘Reason is how we get to the truth, but imagination is how we find meaning.’”

Beautiful

With stories, I can see with other eyes, imagine with other imaginations, feel with other hearts, as well as with my own. Stories aren’t equations.”

“Every life should be guided and enriched by one book or another, don’t you agree? Certainly, every formative moment in my life has been enriched or informed by a book. You must be very careful about what you choose to read—unless you want to stay stuck in your opinions and hard-boiled thoughts, you must be very careful.”

George knows you can take the bad parts in a life, all the hard and dismal parts, and turn them into something of beauty. You can take what hurts and aches and perform magic with it so it becomes something else, something that never would have been, except you make it so with your spells and stories and with your life.”

Grief is the price I paid for loving fiercely, and that was okay, because there was no other choice but to love fiercely and fully.