I just came upon a wonderful quotation in a wonderful book -- Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan. It concerns George, an eight-year-old boy who is very ill, and who greatly cherishes C.S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. (It twinges a bit for me to resist putting in an Oxford comma.)
"George knows you can take the bad parts in a life, all the hard and dismal parts, and turn them into something of beauty. You can take what hurts and aches and perform magic with it so that it becomes something else, something that would never have been, except you make it so with your spells and stories and with your life."
This speaks to me as a writer, and may similarly speak to other writers, and to those wrestling with those hard and dismal parts of life.
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