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Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)

by Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)

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Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

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I got very much frightened at this, for if there is any one who can ferret out a mystery it is a reporter.

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“I am a genius of infinite potential and highly limited patience. People shouldn’t try me so.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

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“Do you think,” the professor was saying, “that you could spend two hours reading the same passage, the same sentence, even the same word? Do you think you might find it tedious, or boring?”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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“Yoli, she said, I’m just saying that apologies aren’t the bedrock of civilized society. All right! I said. I agree. But what is the bedrock of civilized society? Libraries, said Elf.”
― Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows

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“Without stories, we’re all just lonely islands.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Afterlife of Holly Chase

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“Some people thought only motion bred strength. Those people were wrong. The mountain was as powerful as the tide, just … in a different way.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

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