Beth

“He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer cars with their knees and snitch roses from gardens to give to girls and write with their left hand and own two pairs of jeans and one jacket and fall in love from such a height and so hard and so completely that they never quite recover from the drop.

But at least he will have me to look out for him.”
― Hilary McKay, Forever Rose

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“Belief in mysteries—all manner of mysteries—is the only lasting luxury in life.”
― Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Witches of Worm

“Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. a”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy