Alexi

“The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.”
― Keith Donohue

“It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, the words, if anything, made the people and places more real than the everchanging world.”
― Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood