You don’t really realize how many small sounds a house makes—the tocking of the grandfather clock, the sighing of the summer breeze against the windowpanes, the moaning of floor joists beneath a hundred pairs of expensive shoes—until you’ve
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“In this way Ade suffered precisely the sort of fall from grace her aunts and grandmother most feared, and in so doing made a discovery: fallen women are afforded a species of freedom.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Something about having a child bends you back to your beginnings, as if you have been drawing a circle all your life and now are compelled to close it.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― 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.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“But a more grown-up, sober-sounding voice reminded me that The Ten Thousand Doors was just a novel, and that novels are untrustworthy advisers. They aren’t concerned with rationality or sobriety; they peddle in tragedy and suspense, in chaos and rule breaking, in madness and heartache, and they will steer you toward such things with all the guile of a piper luring rats into a river.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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