“The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
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