The Starless Sea

They take an unspoken vow to no longer tell their own stories in reverence to the ones that came before and to the ones that shall follow

u can’t end a story when parts of it are still running around lost in time.”

“That’s why Allegra wanted to keep the book lost, isn’t it? And Simon and his hand.”

Allegra takes the matches from her coat and ignites the former door and watches it burn.

If she can prevent anyone from entering she can prevent the things that she has seen from happening

Each door will lead to a Harbor on the Starless Sea

Red-sweater girl holds up a pen. “I can create a whole world with this, it may not be innovative but it’s effective.”

“It is until you run out of ink,” someone retorts.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins stares at the miniature versions of the same symbols he once contemplated in an alleyway behind his mother’s store and wonders how, exactly, he is supposed to continue a story he didn’t know he was in.

Another part of him decides that if he does not try he cannot be disappointed and he can go on believing that the door could open even if it is just pretend.

A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.

When moments before she was ready, now she is shaken and unsure.

But she does not say Stop. She does not say No.

She has made her decision, though she could not have known everything that decision would entail.

What is the difference, Dorian asks himself, between Fate’s heart and a heart belonging to Fate?