Arkasha

“If we were to draw her childhood wanderings on a map, represent her discoveries and destinations in topographic form and trace her winding way through them, we would see her as a girl solving a maze from the center outward, a Minotaur working her way free.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“Human life is bounded by two chasms: fanaticism on one side, absolute skepticism on the other.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“That's my body, but my body isn't me, she thought. The thing that feels your hands on me, that pleases you, isn't me. My body is for you, it isn't for me. She resided in her body an inch below the surface, wearing it like a doll, with a sense of ownership and pride, perhaps, but never fully being it.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World

“I’ve written something strange, deeply personal, highly subjective. I am a scientist studying his own soul, a snake swallowing its own tail.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January