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“A book is made of paper but a story is a tree.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Endings are what gives stories meaning.

I think the whole story has meaning but I also think to have a whole story-shaped story it needs some sort of resolution. Not even a resolution, some appropriate place to leave it. A goodbye. I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Bloody clothing is often a clue that something has gone awry.”
― Libba Bray, Lair of Dreams

“Who says we're smart?' she asked, in a tone of playful contempt. 'We never even mastered fire. We thought we did, but you see now, it has mastered us.”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman