

“It’s a profoundly strange feeling, to stumble across someone whose desires are shaped so closely to your own, like reaching toward your reflection in a mirror and finding warm flesh under your fingertips. If you should ever be lucky enough to find that magical, fearful symmetry, I hope you’re brave enough to grab it with both hands and not let go.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“Thresholds are dangerous places, neither here nor there, and walking across one is like stepping off the edge of a cliff in the naive faith that you'll sprout wings halfway down. You can't hesitate, or doubt. You can't fear the in-between.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“Choosing to have joy
is not naively thinking
everything
will be easy.
It is courageously
believing
that there is
still hope,
even when
things get hard.”
― All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living
is not naively thinking
everything
will be easy.
It is courageously
believing
that there is
still hope,
even when
things get hard.”
― All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.”
― Once Upon a Wardrobe
― Once Upon a Wardrobe

“The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love.”
― Once Upon a Wardrobe
― Once Upon a Wardrobe
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