“Some stories begin at the beginning and others begin at the end, but all the best stories begin in a library.”
― The Book of Magic
― The Book of Magic
“Once upon a time something happened that you never could have imagined, a spell was broken, a girl was saved, a rose grew out of a tooth buried deep in the ground, love was everywhere, and people who had been taken away continued to walk with you, in dreams and in the waking world.”
― The World That We Knew
― The World That We Knew
“Words were everything, stories were more powerful than any weapon, books changed lives.”
― The Book of Magic
― The Book of Magic
“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Once, a long time ago, before we knew who we were, we thought we wanted to be like everyone else. How lucky to be exactly who we were.”
― The Book of Magic
― The Book of Magic
Benjamin’s 2025 Year in Books
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