The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.”
“The will to be polite, to maintain civility and normalcy, is fearfully strong. I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to run unchecked simply because it would be rude to interrupt it.”
“It’s a profoundly strange feeling, to stumble across someone whose desires are shaped so closely to your own, like reaching toward your reflection in a mirror and finding warm flesh under your fingertips. If you should ever be lucky enough to find that magical, fearful symmetry, I hope you’re brave enough to grab it with both hands and not let go.”
“May she wander but always return home, may all her words be written true, may every door lie open before her.”
“Let that be a lesson to you: If you are too good and too quiet for too long, it will cost you. It will always cost you, in the end.”
“Destiny is a pretty story we tell ourselves. Lurking beneath it there are only people, and the terrible choices we make.”
“Those of you who are more than casually familiar with books -- those of you who spend your free afternoons in fusty bookshops, who offer furtive, kindly strokes along the spines of familiar titles -- understand that page riffling is an essential element in the process of introducing oneself to a new book. It isn't about reading the words; it's about reading the smell, which wafts from the pages in a cloud of dust and wood pulp. It might smell expensive and well bound, or it might smell of tissue-thin paper and blurred two-colour prints, or of fifty years unread in the home of a tobacco-smoking old man. Books can smell of cheap thrills or painstaking scholarship, or literary weight or unsolved mysteries.”
“Maybe all powerful men are cowards at heart, because in their hearts they know power is temporary.”
“How fitting, that the most terrifying time in my life should require me to do what I do best: escape into a book.”
“It is at the moments when the doors open, when things flow between the worlds, that stories happen.”
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soulmates, books, love, destiny, escape, evil, civility, magic, choice, reading
