Anthony Makar

“Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you. Everything pauses while you do familiar things with taps and kettles; it allows you to catch your breath and become calm.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow

“Also because throughout the winter there’d been a sort of Holly-shaped hole in my brain, into which I used to throw dark thoughts. I probably spent too much time there, like a moody Inuk fishing at an ice hole, sitting on the edge, staring in.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow

“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”
― Ram Dass

“It’s a common misconception that places that have suffered psychic trauma must look sinister, too, with gaping windows, creaking doors, and walls twisted subtly out of shape. As with people, so with houses—a smiling, innocuous exterior can conceal the blackest heart, and”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow