Emily

“You wish to sail the Starless Sea and breathe the haunted air”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“...it tastes older than stories. It tastes like myth.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another. "Stop looking so superior!" my father sometimes used to shout at me when I was eating, watching television, or otherwise minding my own business. But this facial cast of mine (that's what I think it is, really, a way my mouth has of turning down at the corners, it has little to do with my actual moods) has worked as often to my favor as to my disadvantage.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History