"Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
"Day by day, the leaves of the trees along the streets turned to gold. It delighted me to see how well the changing colors matched the slow transformation happening inside me." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)
“‘What if we go on … only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?’
…
‘Then it is not the end.’”
— Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4)
"[He] could smell the distant winter on the air -- a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
"The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possessed by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it's your whole soul." - Motojirō Kajii, Landscapes of the Heart
“Heaven truly was an untouched stash of books, just waiting to be opened and read.” — Hester Fox, The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
"He pours for me. The coffee is hot and thick and biting. Nearly deadly. Delicious." - Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer
"My dreams were like the finest, sweetest honey. And I was like a honeybee, flying in search of more." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)