Chandra Dragulin

“The caretaker was certainly very ancient, a tight and desiccated thing from which all softness and moisture had long since been extracted.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase

“There’s magic in that. It’s in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Follow your dreams, Bailey,” she says. “Be they Harvard or something else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone’s dream once, himself.” Bailey”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“If I make the lashes dark, And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity’s displayed; I’m looking for the face I had Before the world was made. —W. B. Yeats”
― Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows