Keith Campbell

“is fashionable among intellectuals and sophisticates to scoff at true love—to pretend it is nothing but a sweet fairy tale sold to children and young women, to be taken as seriously as magic wands or glass slippers.11 I feel nothing but pity for these learned persons, because they would not say such foolish things if they had ever experienced love for themselves.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us, he said, then there wouldn’t be so much fuss about love in the first place.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“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.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“It felt like donning a suit of armor or sprouting wings, extending past the boundaries of myself; it felt an awful lot like love.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January