Bob Godden

“No one needed a magic wardrobe that opened into Narnia if they had a library card; if you had a library card, you had a thousand magic wardrobes to choose from, ten thousand.”
― Joe Hill, King Sorrow

“Technology, as he saw it, had finally succeeded in shrinking the globe, so much so that every news story felt dangerous and personal, every war a threat to his family, every firestorm, hurricane, and melting ice cap a local disaster, the seas boiling up around them, every cynical political and legal maneuver part of the same rotten fabric—and half the country somehow seeing it exactly the opposite way.”
― Jess Walter, So Far Gone

“We all think we only have to be knocked a little bit off course and we’ve lost everything, but it’s only the start of something new and good. Where there is life, there is happiness. There is a huge amount yet to come.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“You don’t seem like a man who loves to fail, so why are you so good at it?”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door