Jenn

“It’s like a cracked mirror now,” Lois says. “Something is always missing. The mirror doesn’t get put back the way it was, but if you work, you can get a piece of it back.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

“Here is how you make a sheet of parchment: Soak a pelt in a scouring bath until it softens. Scrape the hair off. Treat the skin with astringent tannic acids. Rack and torture until tight. And here’s how you make a story: Soak a life in mortality. Scrape the soul. Librarian Gregor Henry, 1899 CE”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten

“No story is insignificant. That’s what the existence of the Unwritten Wing teaches us. No escapist fantasy, no far-off dream, no remembered suffering. Every story has meaning, has power. Every story has the power to sustain, the power to destroy, the power to create. Stories shape time, for Pete’s sake. Once upon a time. Long, long ago. Someday. And then what happened? Living author or dead, written or not, your story shakes the world. That’s common sense to a muse, and the idea librarians are supposed to honor. That every story, every human, matters. The hard part is convincing ourselves first. Apprentice Librarian Brevity, 2010 CE”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten

“At the end of our days in this world, each of us goes home in the dark, to what we cannot know. The prospect of that journey is fearsome, but if we have loved and been loved, we do not go alone. We go with the memory of light and those who shared it with us, and if our hope is not misplaced, we go from light into light. See, no monsters.”
― Dean Koontz, Going Home in the Dark