Gemma

“They do not care if you are good. They barely care if you are wicked. The only thing that makes them listen is power.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“All around me doors into other worlds began appearing but I knew the one I wanted, the one into which everything forgotten flows. The edges of that door were frayed and worn by the passage of old ideas leaving the world.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Why did you think he described the other world—the one he said he went to most often—as a labyrinth?’

Ketterley shrugged. ‘A vision of cosmic grandeur, I suppose. A symbol of the mingled glory and horror of existence. No one gets out alive.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“In all these places I have stood in Doorways and looked ahead.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi