“This time their kiss would last for generations.”
― Thalia and Earth
― Thalia and Earth
“Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost in the footsteps of other lives.”
― House of Windows
― House of Windows
“I have always found that making allowances for a liberal amount of fiction in one’s life is necessary to maintaining equanimity. How else does one escape, even for a short time, from the drudgery that everyday life affords?”
― Longbourn: Dragon Entail
― Longbourn: Dragon Entail
“A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating from the yellowed pages, but each is at home in its battered state. Their wrinkled pages and discolored skin tell not of old age, but of a good life. These books, unlike so many others, were not just read, but revisited, loved, and experienced.”
― If I Resist
― If I Resist
“He was still wet with sweat and the coffee did little to cool things, but he needed it because it was an old friend and starting the day without it was unthinkable.”
― A Time for Mercy
― A Time for Mercy
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