Once Upon a Wardrobe

by Patti Callahan Henry

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

by now he understood that all books worth loving were worth rereading over and over.

But then there can also be a wonderful surprise when despair changes to rejoicing merely by turning around.

It is only for lack of imagination that you are bored.”

“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.”

As if one can pre-grieve and get it out of the way. It’s not true. 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.