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

“Live as though all your ancestors were living again through you,” said the ancient Greeks.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

“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

“Idle hours are sharp; they open new wounds in the heart and prick the mind with anxiety.”
― Dean Koontz, The House at the End of the World