Leslie Ann

“That was what stories did, or the ones that mattered to us: They helped us to understand others, but they could also make us feel understood in turn, and less alone in the world.”
― John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things

“Ladies, get you a man who can handle a portal to hell without freaking out.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

“this was the human condition: often to be lost, confused, or anxious, but finally to comprehend that, at crucial instances, we will find ourselves lost precisely where we were meant to be; that there is little of use to be learned from the familiar—one may gain comfort from it, but not knowledge—only from what is strange and new; and that everything worth experiencing or embracing is, because unknown, first touched by fear.”
― John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things

“The author had found a way to turn his pain into a novel, and that novel had occasionally helped others with their pain. That was what stories did, or the ones that mattered to us: They helped us to understand others, but they could also make us feel understood in turn, and less alone in the world.”
― John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things