Darceylaine

“I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Most are ordinary men and women with all the usual flaws and hypocrisies. People would rather call them witches and burn them tha0n acknowledge that miracles are bestowed upon the world with glorious, unfathomable generosity, because people are idiots."
Fatima studied Hassan's long fingers, occupied now in stowing the map in his satchel. They did not appear miraculous. Or if they did, so did everything else; the trees exhaling in the darkness, insensible of any danger Fatima might face; the halo of distant stars overhead, more insensible still. The pattern that populated the world seemed bound together by nothing, yet it all persisted nonetheless... Perhaps the real miracle was that the world could support so many contradictions. Next to that Hassan's talents seemed rather modest. [Bird King p. 155]”
― G. Willow Wilson

“I accepted because mysterious ladies offering bourbon under the stars is very much my aesthetic.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“There are stories that are more fragile still: For every tale carved in rock there are more inscribed on autumn leaves or woven into spiderwebs. There are stories wrapped in silk so their pages do not fall to dust and stories that have already succumbed, fragments collected and kept in urns.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea