But once he has his hand on the doorknob, I realize that I have put into motion the end of a lackluster life in the interest of eventually finding a great one.
“The secret life is the only real life. Everything else is just a disguise.”
― Rare Objects
― Rare Objects
“It’s the holidays,” Anderson said carefully. “They make people crazy, give people existential crises.”
― Good Elf Gone Wrong
― Good Elf Gone Wrong
“You have to understand, old houses have their quirks. Some things are meant to be flawed. Therein lies beauty.”
― The Lost Bookshop
― The Lost Bookshop
“If you can capture a woman’s imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.”
― The Flirt
― The Flirt
“If we address stories as archaeological sites, and dust through their layers with meticulous care, we find at some level there is always a doorway. A dividing point between here and there, us and them, mundane and magical. It is at the moments when the doors open, when things flow between the worlds, that stories happen.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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