He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
You didnโt get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.