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“If you would take the time to listen to them,” Baba repeats calmly, “then you would hear their stories. Their lives would add to yours, and stay with you forever.”
― Sophie Anderson, The House with Chicken Legs

“And I love the idea that one day, completely out of the blue, someone or something could come hurtling down from the sky and change my life, for ever.”
― Sophie Anderson, The House with Chicken Legs

“One day I’d like to find the story of my past, and I hope it’s something more magical than being unwanted and abandoned as a baby. I hope it’s a tale filled with wonder, that explains who I am and why I’m different, why I hear the trees whispering secrets, and why I always feel the forest, pulling me in.”
― Sophie Anderson, The Girl Who Speaks Bear

“Misery is like an animal, it needs food to survive—so starve it. Surround yourself with art and beauty that brightens your darkest days. Listen to music and poetry that always fill the cracks of your broken heart. Read quotes and passages that can soothe and motivate you when you feel the most discouraged. Spend time with people who make you laugh and distract you from your troubles. Nourish your soul and hopefully the mind will follow. However, if you find you can't help yourself, there's no shame in asking others for help. Sometimes asking for help is just as heroic as giving it. There are treatments and therapies and counselors that you could benefit from—but no one finds answers if they're too afraid to ask the questions. Don't let your pride tell you otherwise.”
― Chris Colfer, A Tale of Witchcraft...

“We are all stardust and stories.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“It is at the moments when the doors open, when things flow between the worlds, that stories happen.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“Running away was not like it was in stories. People did not try and stop you. They did not give chase. The thing people didn't understand was that you had to decide what you were running away from. Most of the time it wasn't mothers or fathers or monsters or villains; most of the time you were running away from that little voice inside your head, the one telling you to stay where you are, that everything will turn out all right.”
― Robert Dinsdale, The Toymakers

“Once upon a time, all of us, no matter what we've grown up to do or who we've grown up to be, were little boys and girls, happy with nothing more than bouncing a ball against a wall”
― Robert Dinsdale, The Toymakers

“The most terrible things can happen to a man, but he’ll never lose himself if he remembers he was once a child.”
― Robert Dinsdale, The Toymakers

“Mightn’t it be, Cathy, that, until you’ve seen the dark, you don’t really know the light?”
― Robert Dinsdale, The Toymakers

“A toy cannot save a life, but it can save a soul.”
― Robert Dinsdale, The Toymakers

“These decisions, they are the magic we call Life.”
― Robert Dinsdale, The Toymakers