Selin

“When the coffers are empty and their bellies growl, even good men turn bad.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“I tried to reason with them, but people do not always hear the words of a beast.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“If you become a bird and fly away from me, I will be a tree that you come home to.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, The Runaway Bunny

“Walt's father had been shopping with his son on a Sunday afternoon when he'd wandered into All Saints' Passage and found the bookshop. A silent boy, Walt still hadn't spoken, so there was no reason to think he'd be interested in reading yet. But when Walt snuck through the door, under his father's arm, he let out a gasp of delight.
He had stepped into a kingdom: an oak labyrinth of bookshelves, corridors and canyons of literature beckoning him, whispering enchanting words Walt had never heard before. The air was smoky with the scent of leather, ink and paper, caramel-rich and citrus-sharp. Walt stuck out his small tongue to taste this new flavor and grinned, sticky with excitement. And he knew, all of a sudden and deep in his soul, that this was a place he belonged more than any other.”
― Menna van Praag, The Dress Shop of Dreams