Melissa

“A girl lost in the woods is a different sort of creature than a girl who walks purposefully through the trees even though she does not know her way.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“If you believe enough to try to open a painted door you’re more likely to believe in wherever it leads.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“It is a sanctuary for storytellers and storykeepers and storylovers. They eat and sleep and dream surrounded by chronicles and histories and myths.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Paper is fragile, even when bound with string in cloth or leather. The majority of the stories within the Harbor on the Starless Sea are captured on paper. In books or on scrolls or folded into paper birds and suspended from ceilings.
There are stories that are more fragile still: For every tale carved in rock there are more inscribed on autumn leaves or woven into spiderwebs.
There are stories wrapped in silk so their pages do not fall to dust and stories that have already succumbed, fragments collected and kept in urns.
They are fragile things. Less sturdy than their cousins who are told aloud and learned by heart.
And there are always those who would watch Alexandria burn.
There always have been. There always will be.
So there are always guardians.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea