“...there was something in the texture of the weave that felt happy: the echo of a memory so far down in his soul it was all emotion, a burst of colour and warmth, adrift from time and place.” SoulJoyTimeGriefEmotionMemoryColourWarmthEcho Book:House of Windows Source: House of Windows
“Some things should never be said. Not out loud in clear, simple words. You talk around them. You leave gaps and blanks. You use other words and talk in curves and arcs for the worst things because you need to keep them like mist. Words are dangerous. Like a spell, if you name the mist, call out all of the words that describe it sharp and clear, you turn it solid, into something that no one should ever hold in their hands. Better that it stays like water, slipping between your fingers.” LanguageSilenceDangerWordsSecrets Author:Alexia Casale
“You must not fear that clutching at your dreams will shatter them so they run through your fingers like sand. That way lies a life spent in yearning. But yearning is only a season of dreaming, for dreams, if nurtured, become strong.” DreamsPatienceDreamingYearing Book:The Bone Dragon Source: The Bone Dragon
“Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost in the footsteps of other lives.” StoriesReadingDreamsBooksGhostFootstepsOld BooksWorldsTomes Book:House of Windows Source: House of Windows