USOM

“Once there was, and one day there will be. This is the beginning of every story. “Once”
― Traci Chee, The Reader

“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“But books are curious objects. They have the power to trap, transport, and even transform you if you are lucky. But in the end, books—even magic ones—are only objects pieced together from paper and glue and thread. That was the fundamental truth the readers forgot. How vulnerable the book really was. To fire. To the damp. To the passage of time. And to theft.”
― Traci Chee, The Reader

“The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer