Bloom

by Delilah S. Dawson

The modern world is severely lacking in magic, and those who crave it are at a constant disadvantage because they are desperate and it’s in short supply. Some places—amusement parks, country fairs, museums, old bookstores—can temporarily fill the void, but there will always be people who check every armoire for a door to Narnia, every rabbit hole for a road to Wonderland.

Ro would like to be breezy, but she seems to swing between periods of dedicated, obsessive effort and slothlike, stubborn inertia.

Words are her world, and yet she is speechless. This happens sometimes. She understands books so much better than she understands people.

People are difficult—they don’t always tell the truth, much less know the truth—but books are honest.”

why is it that books are easier to understand than people? but it's so true.