“Those of you who are more than casually familiar with books -- those of you who spend your free afternoons in fusty bookshops, who offer furtive, kindly strokes along the spines of familiar titles -- understand that page riffling is an essential element in the process of introducing oneself to a new book. It isn't about reading the words; it's about reading the smell, which wafts from the pages in a cloud of dust and wood pulp. It might smell expensive and well bound, or it might smell of tissue-thin paper and blurred two-colour prints, or of fifty years unread in the home of a tobacco-smoking old man. Books can smell of cheap thrills or painstaking scholarship, or literary weight or unsolved mysteries.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“The trouble with you people,’ I observed, ‘is that you believe in permanence. An orderly world will remain so; a closed door will remain closed.’ I shook my head, reaching for the door. ‘It’s very … limiting.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“How fitting, that the most terrifying time in my life should require me to do what I do best: escape into a book.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Doors, he told her, are change, and change is a dangerous necessity. Doors are revolutions and upheavals, uncertainties and mysteries, axis points around which entire worlds can be turned.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Maybe all powerful men are cowards at heart, because in their hearts they know power is temporary.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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