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Hope Edelman
“If I had to pinpoint my mother’s location, I’d say she’s nowhere and everywhere at the same time. She’s a foggy memory I can’t quite bring into focus and a gentle spirit that infuses all my days. She hovers in the background of my life now, suspended, shapeless, like familiar air.”
Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Alix E. Harrow
“I hope to every god you have the guts to do what needs doing. I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through. I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics. I hope you will run through every open Door, and tell stories when you return.”
Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Alix E. Harrow
“True love is not stagnant; it is in fact a door, through which all kinds of miraculous and dangerous things may enter.”
Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Alix E. Harrow
“Fallen women are afforded a species of freedom.
Footnote: There is of course no such thing as a fallen woman, unless we are speaking of a woman who recently tripped on the stairs. One of the most difficult elements of this world is the way its social rules are simultaneously rigid and arbitrary. It is impermissible to engage in physical love before binding legal marriage, unless one is a young man of means. Men must be bold and assertive, but only if they are light-skinned. Any persons may fall in love regardless of station, but only if one is a woman and the other a man. I urge you not to navigate your own life by such faulty borders, my dear. There are, after all, other worlds.”
Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Alix E. Harrow
“Once we have agreed that true love exists, we may consider its nature. It is not, as many misguided poets would have you believe an event in and of itself; it is not something that happens, but something that simply is and always has been. One does not fall in love; one discovers it.”
Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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