The Lost Story Quotes

“All books are magic. An object that can take you to another world without even leaving your room? A story written by a stranger and yet it seems they wrote it just for you or to you? Loving and hating people made out of ink and paper, not flesh and blood? Yes, books are magic. Maybe even the strongest magic there is.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“Joy is quieter than people think it is. Especially the joy of getting back something you thought was lost forever.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“You kill an artist, you kill all their unmade art too. Why don't people think about that before they hurt each other?”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“But scared is a feeling, not an excuse.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“And that’s why the world has Holy Grails—not because the world needs Holy Grails but because the world needs heroes.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“I don’t know what’s worse, that he doesn’t remember I’m in love with him or that he doesn’t remember he was in love with me.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“Then again, why not here? Why did France and Germany and all those places get to have fairytales but not West Virginia? Wild, West Virginia. Wonderful, West Virginia. Beautiful and dangerous and dark and strange West Virginia. Why didn’t they get to have magic here, where the hills rolled like ocean waves and the morning mist was as thick as the silence of a family keeping secrets.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“Ask any question in an infinite universe, and the answer is yes. Always yes.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“They didn’t have fairy tales in West Virginia. They were lucky to have a Target.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“And since fairy tales have happy endings, this means one of two things. Either this isn’t a fairy tale… Or it’s only the beginning.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“In other words, a hero on a quest for the Holy Grail isn’t looking for the Holy Grail. The hero is trying to find himself, and the only way he can find his true self is by going on a journey, being tried and tested until he knows if he is a hero in name only or a hero in truth. And that’s why the world has Holy Grails—not because the world needs Holy Grails but because the world needs heroes.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“scared is a feeling, not an excuse.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“All books are magic. An object that can take you to another world without even leaving your room? A story written by a stranger and yet seems they wrote it just for you or to you? Loving and hating people made out of ink and paper, not flesh and blood? Yes, books are magic. Maybe even the strongest magic there is.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“Stevie Nicks transcends space and time.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“Sometimes the godmother is just a good mother.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“Fair warning. Things are about to get very weird.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“Joy is quieter than people think it is. Especially the joy of getting something you thought was lost forever.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“To say I’m sorry I was the only wolf he found. Lesson one I’d say—don’t be like me.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“Joy is quieter than people think it is.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“Sometimes I think art is stronger than we are,”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“Because I remember who you are, even if you don’t.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“the fact that something impossible happened doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. —C. S. Lewis”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“Music was magic for Emilie, especially the music of Stevie Nicks. For as long as she could remember, Stevie’s crushed-velvet voice could calm her racing mind even on the roughest days.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story