“But if you aren’t living your life, whose life are you living?”
― The Secret Book of Flora Lea
― The Secret Book of Flora Lea
“Her obsession with reasons and explanations, her desperate need to make meaning of the meaningless and sense of the senseless was destroying what she had right here, right now.”
― The Secret Book of Flora Lea
― The Secret Book of Flora Lea
“What a fairy tale is meant to do,” she said, “if it’s meant to do anything at all, Tolkien says, is give us new perspective in our world, the consolation of a happy ending.”
― The Secret Book of Flora Lea
― The Secret Book of Flora Lea
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