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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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“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
“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
“One does not fall in love; one discovers it.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious.”
― Little, Big
― Little, Big
“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
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