Brandee Shafer

“The thing people don't always want to realize is that stories have great power whether they get told or not.”
― Will Willingham, Adjustments

“Know Thyself,' Dorian says. [...]
'That's half the Rawlins family motto,' Zachary says.
'What's the other half?'
'And Learn to Suffer.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“There is nothing now save for this room and this woman and this story. He can feel the way the story spreads out from this point, through space and through time and so much further than he ever imagined but this is the beating, buzzing heart of it. Right here and right now.

He's calm again. Relieved to have his Max back and even though he knows they both have other people they belong with there is still this room and this dance and this moment and it matters, maybe more than any of the others.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“The question is what story do you need to tell, in order to give notice to that thing with fangs that keeps chewing through your insides.”
― Will Willingham, Adjustments