It is easier to be in love in a room with closed doors

intaglioed

shyness is a minor discomfort that vanished halfway through the first round of drinks

All this comfort shouldn't feel so uncomfortable

bibliomancy

Important things hurt sometimes.

"You are words on paper ... Be careful what stories you tell yourself."

This person is a place Zachary could lose himself in

Lantern's Keep

He found what he had been seeking, a person not a place, a particular person in this particular place

when he felt himself falling he would go and find a new book and fall into it instead and be someone somewhere else for a while

You may be by yourself but you are not alone

The stag's antlers are gold and covered with candles, twisting and burning like a crown of flame and wax

The snow looks more blue than white and the trees themselves are gold. Zachary pauses to inspect the trunk of one more closely and finds its bark covered in delicate gold leaf

Endings are what give stories meaning.

I think the best stories feel like they're still going, somewhere, out in story space.