Irem

“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a place in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“There’s your television—sixty inches of sexy plasma. There’s your Netflix, always ready to welcome you with some rewarmed sitcom laughter, and your stack of Blu-rays and your bookcase full of well-worn paperbacks. There’s Facebook and Snapchat and Instagram to keep you connected, to show you all the places you’ve yet to visit and people you’ve yet to meet. You’ve got a thousand worlds at your fingertips, a thousand lives, and before you know it, home is just the place you go to be somewhere else, someone else, until morning comes and your dreams end and you have to be you again.”
― Daniel Barnett, Nightfall

“I was tired, I think maybe I misheard him or he was doing a voice from a cartoon or something.”
― Robert P. Ottone, The Vile Thing We Created

“You are not the same lad that lost his practice sword at the Spring Fair.”
― John Gwynne, Malice