The Enchanted
Rene Denfeld
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The truth is, clocks don’t tell time. Time is measured in meaning.”
“I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?”
“Inside, the lies you tell become the person you become. On the outside, sun and reality shrink people back to their actual size. In here, people grow into their shadows.”
“I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books. The book itself doesn’t matter. It’s that he found another world in it.”
“The walls that might make others feel like they are suffocating have become my lungs.”
“After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it was dandelion wine and ice cream on a summer porch, like Ray Bradbury, and catching catfish with Huck Finn. My own memories receded and the book memories became the real memories, far more than the outside, far more even than in here.”
“Later I read that there are things inside us too tiny to see. Not even a microscope can capture them. This got me thinking--if there are things inside us too tiny to see, might there be things outside us too big to believe?”
“You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say.”
“Your worst dungeon might be the room with the most windows.”
“The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place - all the dreams and visions and understandings that come to me in my dungeon cell. The books helped me see the truth is not in the touch of the stone but in what the stone tells you.”
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