“There’s only one way to run away from your own story, and that’s to sneak into someone else’s.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“This is the mad Midas touch of true love, which transforms everything it touches to gold.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“No one really remembers their own origins. Most of us possess a kind of hazy mythology about our early childhood, a set of stories told and retold by our parents, interwoven with our blurred baby memories.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“It had bewildered her, back at Canaan House, how the whole of her always seemed to come back to Gideon. For one brief and beautiful space of time, she had welcomed it: that microcosm of eternity between forgiveness and the slow, uncomprehending agony of the fall. Gideon rolling up her shirt sleeves. Gideon dappled in shadow, breaking promises. One idiot with a sword and an asymmetrical smile had proved to be Harrow’s end: her apocalypse swifter than the death of the Emperor and the sun with him.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
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