Danielle Michu

“The truth is: Adelaide was the most beautiful being I have seen in this world or any other, if we understand beauty to be a kind of vital, ferocious burning at a soul’s center that ignites everything it touches.)”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“When you unwittingly stuck your hand into the wasps’ nest, you hadn’t made a covenant with the devil to give up your civilized self with its trappings of love and respect and honor. It just happened to you. Passively, with no say, you ceased to be a creature of the mind and became a creature of the nerve endings; from college-educated man to wailing ape in five easy seconds.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Just close your eyes and you will remember me.” I do, Dad. I do remember you, but you’re fading. There’s too much interference, and all of this is becoming much too real.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Authority

“I wanted to vomit. I wanted to run away and keep running until I fell into some other, better world.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January