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“And no story ever truly ends as long as it is told.”

“I think my stomach fell into my feet because I have literally always been the kid who believes in fairy tales but I didn't know what to do because I wasn't a kid, I was a twenty-something in a cocktail bar who never feels old enough to drink”

“He tells her about moving from place to place to place and never feeling like he ever belonged in any of them, how wherever he was he would almost always rather be someplace else, preferably somewhere fictional.”

“This person is a place Zachary could lose himself in, and never wish to be found.”

“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.”

“"Spiritual but not religious," Zachary clarifies. He doesn't say what he is thinking, which is that his church is held-breath story listening and late-night-concert ear-ringing rapture and perfect-boss fight-button pressing. That his religion is buried in the fallen snow, in a carefully crafted cocktail, in between the pages of a book somewhere after the beginning but before the ending.”

“But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.”

“A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.”