“All good books are alike in that they
are truer than if they really happened
and after you are finished reading one
you will feel that it all happened to you
and afterwards it all belongs to you:
the good and the bad, the ecstasy,
the remorse and sorrow,
the people and the places and
how the weather was.
If you can get so that you can give that
to people, then you are a writer.”
– Ernest Hemingway

The BeagleSword was Bludworth
and the rabbit hole was a word-journey
into light and shadow.

“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying,
that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror
that offers us only what we already carry inside us,
that when we read, we do it with all our heart
and mind, and great readers are becoming
more scarce every day.”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shadow of the Wind, p. 484