Inspiration #2

Serenity - painting of a woman reading by Sherree Valentine Daines.

swirl-divider4“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

Inspiration #1

frozen-in-time-175376“Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved.”

~Diane Setterfield “The Thirteenth Tale”